United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/3rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 20
Chap. XX.—An Act to authorize Ephraim Kimberly to locate the land warrant issued to him for services in the late American army.
Ephraim Kimberly permitted to locate certain land-warrant.Be it enacted, &c., That permission be, and the same is hereby granted to Ephraim Kimberly, now resident on the west bank of the Ohio, near Indian Short-creek, within the territory north-west of the Ohio, to locate the land warrant issued to the said Kimberly, for three hundred acres of land, for his services in the late American army, so as to include the land where he now resides, or as convenient as may be thereto:Under what restrictions. Provided, he doth not interfere with any existing claim, location or survey: And upon the said Kimberly’s procuring the said land to be surveyed, in such way and manner as shall be pointed out and directed by the President of the United States, and returning his said warrant into the Treasury of the United States, the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to issue letters-patent in the name, and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to the said Ephraim Kimberly, the three hundred acres of land that shall be so located and surveyed.
Approved, April 18, 1794.