Chapter LXI. confirming a Land Claim to Elijah White, of the Territory of Washington
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Chap. LXI.— An Act confirming a Land Claim to Elijah White, of the Territory of Washington. Feb. 10, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the claim of Doctor Elijah White, to six hundred and forty acres of land on Baker’s Bay, near Cape Settlement of land claim of Elijah White, under act of 1850, ch. 76, making donations of land in Oregon.Disappointment, formerly in Oregon, now in Washington Territory, under the act of Congress approved September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, creating the office of surveyor-general, and making donations in Oregon, shall not suffer any prejudice by reason of his absence from his settlement, as set forth in his petition; but the said claim, if in other respects within the provisions of the said act of September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, shall be confirmed by the surveyor-general to the said Elijah White and his assignees, but not to interfere with any reservation that may be needed by the United States for light-house or other public uses, nor to the prejudice of any valid adverse right, if such exist.
Approved, February 10, 1855.