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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 10 STAT. · Aug. 5, 1854 · Chapter CCLXIV

Chapter CCLXIV. *for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of George McGirk.* Aug. 5, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the legal representatives The representatives of McGirk authorized to enter certain lands.of George McG

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Chap. CCLXIV.— An Act *for the Relief of the Legal Representatives of George McGirk.* Aug. 5, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the legal representatives The representatives of McGirk authorized to enter certain lands.of George McGirk be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, one hundred and sixty acres of land, in any land-office of the State of Missouri, in lieu of a tract of land claimed by them in said State, viz: the northwest quarter of section one, in township forty-eight, of range seventeen, (west of the fifth principal meridian line, and being survey number two thousand five hundred and forty-four); for which land, so entered by them, the register of the land-office shall issue the necessary certificate, on payment of the fee therefor, on return of which said certificate to the General Land-Office, a patent shall issue in favor of said legal representatives.
Approved, August 5, 1854.
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