Chapter LV. *for the Relief of the Heirs of Jeremiah Wingate.* Feb. 5, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the representatives of Title of representatives of Jeremiah Wingate to land in Florida confirmed
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Chap. LV.— An Act *for the Relief of the Heirs of Jeremiah Wingate.* Feb. 5, 1853. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the representatives of Title of representatives of Jeremiah Wingate to land in Florida confirmed.Jeremiah Wingate, deceased, late of Florida, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a certain tract of land containing four hundred and twenty acres, lying on the north side of Naussa River, in the State of Florida, according to the plats and certificate of survey made by George J.
F. Clarke, dated the second and twenty-third of December [and] the sixth of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, now of file in the public archives of East Florida, the said tract being the same confirmed to the said Jeremiah Wingate during his lifetime, on the fifteenth of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, by the “Board of Commissioners” appointed to ascertain claims and titles to land in 1824, ch. 164.Florida, pursuant to the act entitled “An act granting donations to certain actual settlers in the Territory of Florida,” approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four; and that the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the presentation of the aforesaid Patent to issue.
How to operate.plats and certificate of survey of said tract, issue a patent or patents for the same, which patent shall operate as a relinquishment only on the part of the United States. Approved, February 5, 1853.