United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 28
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act to authorize a relocation of land warrants number three, four, and five, granted by Congress to General Lafayette.
Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 61, sec. 14.
Holders of the warrants authorized to enter other lands, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal holders or assignees of land warrants numbered three, four, and five, granted by the act of Congress of twenty-seventh March, one thousand eight hundred and four, to General Lafayette, and located at Point Coupee, in the State of Louisiana, in three adjoining surveys of one thousand acres each, and which locations are shown to have bene made in material conflict with several older and better grants, shall, upon exhibiting to the register and receiver of any land office within the State of Louisiana, his or their evidence of right to the warrants above described, be permitted, under the same rules and restrictions of the original law under which said locations were authorized, to enter and locate a like quantity of land on any of the unappropriated public lands in the State of Louisiana:Proviso. That, before any such register and receiver shall issue to such holders or assignees any certificate of relocation, the holders or assignees shall deposite a copy of their deraignment of title from General Lafayette, and a release of title to the lands located at Point Coupee.
Approved, February 26, 1845.