Chapter CLXXII. *for the Relief of Jean Baptiste Beaubien.* Aug. 1, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Commissioner of Commissioner of General Land-Office to issue patent or patents to said Beaubien for certain lots of lan
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Chap. CLXXII.— An Act *for the Relief of Jean Baptiste Beaubien.* Aug. 1, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Commissioner of Commissioner of General Land-Office to issue patent or patents to said Beaubien for certain lots of land in Illinois. Lots.the General Land-Office be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent or patents to Jean Baptiste Beaubien, for the following lots as described and numbered on the survey and plat of the Fort Dearborn addition to Chicago, in the State of Illinois, made under the order of the Secretary of War, and now on file in the War-Office, to wit: lots number one, two, three, four, five, and six, of block number four; all that part of lots numbered eight and nine, block number two, which lies south of the line of excavation, authorized by the act of Congress, approved twenty-first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two; and all that 1852, ch. 67.part of lot number one, block number five, that lies within the following boundaries, to wit: commencing on the western line of said lot number one, block five, at a point ten feet north of the southern line thereof; 806 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 173, 174, 175, 176. 1854.thence east, parallel with said southern line two hundred and fifty feet to the western boundary of the lands granted by the United States to the Illinois Central Railroad Company; thence north, along said western boundary thirty-four feet to the northern, line of said lot number one, block five, thence west along said northern line two hundred and fifty feet to the northwest corner thereof; thence south along the western line thereof thirty-four feet to the place of beginning.
Approved, August 1, 1854.