Chapter CXCIV. for the Relief of James Hoistin
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Chap. CXCIV.— An Act for the Relief of James Hoistin. March 3, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That James Hoistin, of Indiana, be, and he hereby is, authorized to enter in legal subdivisions, free ofJames Holstin authorized to enter certain land. cost, one hundred and sixty acres of any of the public lands of the United States subject to private entry at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and, upon the return of a certificate therefor by the legally constituted officers, the Commissioner of the General Land-Office shall issue a patent in favour of said Hoistin for the land so entered: *Provided,* That the same shall be in full satisfaction for losses sustainedProviso. by said Hoistin on account of the erroneous location made by him with military bounty-land warrant number eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, at the Vincennes land-office, on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.
Approved, March 3, 1855.