United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 125
Chap. CXXV.—An Act in reference to pre-emption rights in the south-eastern district of Louisiana.[1]
Register of land office to issue patents in conformity with acts of April 5, 1832, ch. 65, and June 15, 1832, ch. 140.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pre-emption rights granted by the register and receiver of the land office at New Orleans, to certain individuals claiming the same, in the south-eastern land district of Louisiana, under the act of Congress approved fifth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public lands,” and the act approved fifteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act to authorize the inhabitants of the state of Louisiana to enter the back lands,” be, and they are hereby, confirmed; and the register of the land office is hereby directed to issue patent certificates accordingly.
Re-survey on Bayou St. Vincent confirmed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the re-survey made under the supervision of the surveyor general of Louisiana, of certain lands on the bayou St. Vincent, in sections designated as numbers one hundred and ten and one hundred and forty-three, in township thirteen of range fourteen east, situate in the south-eastern district of Louisiana, and which re-survey purports to include the improvements of the actual settlers within its limits, claiming the right of pre-emption thereto under the act of fifth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and payments may be made and patents issued in accordance therewith.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
- ↑ See notes of acts which have been passed relative to pre-emption of public lands, vol. iv. p. 420.