Chapter CIV. *to confirm the Claim of Dusuan de la Croix to a Lot of Land therein described.* July 24, 1854
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Chap. CIV.— An Act *to confirm the Claim of Dusuan de la Croix to a Lot of Land therein described.* July 24, 1854. Whereas in the supplemental report of the register and receiver at Preamble.Jackson Court-House, dated twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty, communicated to the Senate twenty-third of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, it is stated that claim number four, in said report, was “inadvertently omitted in the general report” made on the eleventh of July, eighteen hundred and twenty, and presented to the Senate the seventeenth of November, same year; and whereas, it is considered by the Commissioner of the General Land-Office that, by reason of said omission, the said claim is not entitled to the confirmation contained 1822, ch. 128.in the act of eighth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, confirming the general report of eighteen hundred and twenty: *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That claim number four, in the Land claim confirmed to Dusuan de la Croix.supplemental report hereinbefore referred to, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed to Dusuan de la Croix, his legal representatives and assigns, THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 111. 1854. 789according to the Spanish survey referred to in said claim, as fully, in like manner, and to same effect, as if said claim had been confirmed to said Dusuan de la Croix, his legal representatives, and assigns, by the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-two aforesaid: *Provided,* That this grant and confirmation shall amount only to a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all its right and title to the lot of land hereby granted and confirmed.
Approved, July 24, 1854.