Chapter LXVIII. for the Relief of the Heirs of Joseph Gerard
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Chap. LXVIII.— An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Joseph Gerard. Feb. 10, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That Reese A. P. Gerard, 850 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69, 72, 74. 1855. William Gerard, and Rachel Blue, (formerly Rachel Gerard,) the only children and heirs of Joseph Gerard, a messenger of the United States Children of Joseph Gerard allowed to enter certain land, in full for his services.to the Indians, who was killed in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, be, and they or their heirs are hereby permitted to enter, each one of them severally, or his or their heirs, one section of the public lands, without the payment of any consideration for said three sections, being in full payment for the patriotic services of said Joseph Gerard, and in accordance with the spirit of the inducements authorized by President Washington to be held out to such persons as would consent to carry a message from Fort Washington, now Cincinnati, in seventeen hundred and ninety-two, to the hostile Indians of the then Northwest Territory.
Approved, February 10, 1855.