Chapter CLVI. *for the Relief of Sylvester T
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Chap. CLVI.— An Act *for the Relief of Sylvester T. Jerauld, Assignee of the interest of Henry Richard.* July 27, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the location numbered The location of certain lands in Indiana confirmed to Sylvester T. Jerauld, assignee of H. Richard.one hundred and eighteen, containing four hundred acres, in township one south, of range ten west of the second meridian, Indiana, which has been made in favor of Nathaniel Ewing as assignee of the claim number fourteen hundred and ninety-nine, entered in favor of the heirs of H.
Richard in the report dated thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and nine, of the commissioners at Kaskaskia, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and the President of the United States is hereby authorized, upon the production to the General Land-Office of a patent certificate from the register at Vincennes, Indiana, for said claim, to cause a patent to be issued therefor to the said Sylvester T. Jerauld as When patent to issue.assignee of the interest of the original claimant: *Provided,* That this act, and the patent which may be granted in pursuance of the same, shall Proviso.only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the United States and shall in no way prejudice any valid adverse right if such exist, to the said land.
Approved, July 27, 1854.