Chapter XLIV. for the Relief of David B
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Chap. XLIV.— An Act for the Relief of David B. Sears. Jan. 24, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That David B. Sears be, andDavid B. Sears authorized to enter certain land. he is hereby, authorized to enter the fractional quarter sections of land on 844 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 45, 46, 47. 1854. Rock Island, in the Mississippi River and State of Illinois, necessary to secure to him the full and complete use of the water-power as now improved and used by him on the north side of said island; they being the east half of the southwest fractional quarter of fractional section twenty-nine, containing twenty-eight acres and ten hundredths, the southeast fractional quarter of the same fractional section, containing four acres and nine hundredths, and the northeast, fractional quarter of fractional section thirty-two, containing three acres and twenty-six hundredths, all of which are situated in township eighteen north of the base line, range one west of the fourth principal meridian, upon his paying to the receiver of public moneys at Dixon, the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the same, upon which a final certificate and patent shall issue as in other cases.
Approved, January 24, 1855.