New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12
TGENERAL NATURE-No. 23.1

AN ACT for the relief OF certain purehas-
ers OF lands from the legal representatives
of Bartholomew Cousin.
WHEREAS, The claim of Bartholomew
Cousin, or his legal representatives, is en-
braced in Recorder Batesfs1 report of
February second, eighteen hundred and
sixteen, and confirmed to the extent of
league square, and survey numbered two
thousand one hundred and ninety-six was
made for the same in the year eighteen hun
bred and eighteen: and whereas a further
confirmation was made of eight hundred
and ninety-nine arpents, or six hundred and
sixty-four and seventy eight hundredths
acres, in the favorable report numbered
sixty-one, of the board of commissioners,
under the acts of Congress, OF the years
eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eight
cen hundred and thirty three, confirmed by
the act of July, eighteen hunderd and
thirty-six; therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That it
shall and may be lawful for the county
surveyor of the county of Cape Girardeau,
or whomsoever may be designated by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
to select an area, in compact form, as near
as may be TO the quantity of acres of the
confirmation by act OF July fourth, eighteen
hundred and thirty-six, according to legal
subdivisions, and in full satisfaction of said
claim: beginning at corner where line
of the survey numbered two thousand one
hundred and ninety-six intersects the north
line OF section twelve, township thirty-one
north, range eleven east, near the northeast
corner OF said section twelve; thence with
said line of said survey two thousand one
hundred and ninety-six to corner of
said survey two thousand one hun
dred and ninety-six in section twenty
three OF said township and range;
thence westwardly on a line suff-
Gent distance that a line projected north
wardly parallel with the western boundary
line OF survey numbered two thousand one !.
hundred and ninety-six, and running east
wardly to the place of beginning, will in
clude the said quantity of six hundred and
sixty-four and seventy-eight hundredths
acres; and thereafter, and within onesyear
from the passage of this act, the parties
claiming i'll right of said Cousin any tract
outside of the limits of said survey num-
bered two thousand one hundred and ninety
SIX, and the selection authorized by this
act to make good the second confirmation
aforesaid, be, and are hereby authorized
on satisfactory proof to the register and re-
ceiver of the land district in which said
tracts are situated, of such right. to make
payment therefor at the'rate of one dollar
and twenty-five cents per acre, or by pre-
emptiOn or claim of homestead, according
to the laws of the United States in such
cases made and provided
SEC. 24And be it further enacted, That
any tract or parcel of land, and the survey
and adjustment of said confirmation, which
is not embraced therein but withheld from
sale by the government of the United States
by reason of the supposed interference and
non-suryey of said second confirmation.
thereafter and in one year from the adjust
ment of said survey any party or person
residing upon or cultivating such tract or
parcel of land withheld from sale as afore-
said at and before the passage of this act,
upon making satisfactory proof to the regis
ter and receiver of the land district in
which such tracts or parcels are situate, of
actual settlement according to the pro-
visions OF this section, be and are hereby
authorized to enter said tracts. not to ex-
coed one hundred and sixty acres, including
at one dollar and twenty
,ive cents per acre, or claim the same as "a
homestead, agreeably to the act of Congress
granting homestead to actual settlers
Approved, February Is, 1871.
lGENERAL NATURE-NO. "a 4
AN ACT to cede to the State of Ohio the
unsold lands in the Virginia military dis
trict in said State.
be 1T enacted by the Senate and House of
representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
the lands remaining unsurveyed and
ansold in the Virginia military district