Chapter CLXI. *for the Relief of the Pine Grove Academy, in Louisiana.* July 29, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the president, directors, and trustees, of the Pine Grove Academy, in the Parish of Caldwell, Said academy’s
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Chap. CLXI.— An Act *for the Relief of the Pine Grove Academy, in Louisiana.* July 29, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the president, directors, and trustees, of the Pine Grove Academy, in the Parish of Caldwell, Said academy’s title to certain lands in Louisiana, confirmed.Louisiana, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to the lot of forty acres of land on which said academy is situated, near Columbia, donated to them by Hyams, Chew, and McCoy, claiming under the Maison Rouge Grant, in eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, as more particularly described in the act of donation; and that the said president, directors, and trustees, be also, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a certain tract or parcel of land, situated in said Parish of Caldwell, with about one mile front on the west bank of the Ouachita River, and running west between five and six miles, and known as lot number twenty-three, in the plat number one, of the Maison Rouge Grant, surveyed by John Dinsmore, a deputy-surveyor of the United States, containing about four thousand acres, donated to them by Daniel W.
Coxe, one of the claimants of said grant, in eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and that patents When patent to ho issued. Proviso.be issued to them for said lands, after a legal survey, under the instructions of the Surveyor-General of Louisiana: *Provided,* That this act shall amount only to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and that it shall not be construed to interfere in any manner with the rights of settlers on said lands at the date of this act.
Approved, July 29, 1854.