Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-03-09
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty.flrst
Congress.
PUBLISHED By AUTHORITY
GENERAL NAruRE.-No. a.

- t0EEERAL NATURE.--NO. 20.
An Acr for the relief of certain purchasers of
lands from the legal representatives Of
Bartholomew Cousin. sf.
Whereas the claim of Bartholomew Cousin,
OF his legal representatives, is embraced IN he
corder Bates'[sl 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 hundred and eighteen; and whereas
further confirmation was made of eight hum
dred and ninety-nine arpens, or six hundred
and sixty-four and seyenty-eight hundredths
acres in the favorable report, numbered sixty
one, at the board of commissioners, under the
acts of Congress of the years eighteen hundred
and thirty two and eighteen hundred and thirty
three confirmed by the act of July, eighteen
hundred and thirty-six: Therefore.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House of Re
prescntatives of the United States of Aaerica in
Congress assembled, That it shall and may be
lawful for the country 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 ofthe
confirmation by act of July fourth, eighteen
hundred and thirty-six, according to legal sub
divisions, and in full satisfaction of said claim
beginning at corner where q 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 q
corner OF said survey two thousand one hum
dred and ninety-six, in section twenty-three of
said township and range; thence westwardly
on line q sufficient distance that line pro-
iected northwardly parallel with the western
boundary line of survey numbered two thou
sand one hundred and ninety-six, and running
eastwardly to the place of beginning, win in
include the said quantity of six hundred and
sixty-four aud seventy-eight hundredths acres;
and thereafter and within one year from the
passage of this act, the parties claiming in right
of said Cousinhany tract outside Of the limits of
said survey numbered two thousand one hum
by this act to make good the second confirms
ton aforesaid, be, and are hereby, authorized,
on satisfactory proof to the register and receiver
of the land district in which said tracts are
for at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre. or presumption or claim ofhome-
stead according to the laws of the United States
in such cases made and provided.
SEC 2. AaG be IT further enacted, That any
tract or parcel of land, after the survey and adj
iustment of said confirmation, which is not en-
braced 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 adjustment of said survey any
party or person residing upon and cultivating
such tract or parcel of land withheld from sale IS
Aforesaid at and before the passage Of this ACT,
upon making satisfactory proof to the register
and receiver of the land district in which such
tracts parcels are situated of actua settlement
according to the provisions of this section, be,
ana are hereby, authorized TO enter said tracts,
not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres. in
Guiding Improvements, at one dollar and twenty-
ave cents per acre, or claim the same as a
granting homestead to actual settlers -
Approved, February Is, 1871