Chapter LXIII. for the Relief of George Bush, of Thurston County, Washington Territory
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Chap. LXIII.— An Act for the Relief of George Bush, of Thurston County, Washington Territory. 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 George Bush to six hundred and forty acres of land in Thurston county, Washington Land claim in Washington Territory confirmed to George Bush and his wife.Territory, in virtue of his early settlement and continued residence and cultivation, as set forth in the memorial passed on the seventeenth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, by the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed—the one half to the said George Bush, and the other half to his wife; and it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the said Territory of Washington to designate and set apart the quantity of land aforesaid, to embrace the residence and settlement of the said George Bush, according to the lines of the public surveys, and for the claim hereby confirmed, but not in such a manner as to interfere with any reserve or valid adverse right, if any such exist, to any part of the land claimed as aforesaid: and upon the THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 64, 65, 66, 67, 68. 1855. 849 presentation of a certificate from the Surveyor-General, designating thePatent to issue. land which may be officially set apart under this act, a patent shall issue, if the proceedings are found regular by the Commissioner of the General Land-Office. Approved, February 10, 1855.