Chapter XLVIII. *for the Relief of John Gusman, of Louisiana.* April 20, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the claim of John Claim of John Gusman to certain lands confirmed
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Chap. XLVIII.— An Act *for the Relief of John Gusman, of Louisiana.* April 20, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the claim of John Claim of John Gusman to certain lands confirmed.Gusman, under an ancient purchase of the interest of one Rialleux, and in virtue of ancient and continued possession for more than a third of a century, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed to a certain tract of land, fronting, on the north, the Bayou Bonfouca, in township nine south, of range fourteen east, in the Greensburgland District, Louisiana, and embracing fractions of sections nine, ten, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-two, and thirty-three, and sections sixteen, twenty-one, and twenty-two, according to a survey executed by one Joseph Troskolowski, as represented on a plat accompanying the petition of the said Gusman, it being the intent of this act to recognize the claim of the said Gusman to all of the said land referred to, embracing the school section: *Provided,* Proviso.The school authorities accede to the same, and will take other land in lieu of said school section, which they are hereby authorized to do: *And Further proviso.provided further,* That this act shall only operate as a relinquishment forever on the part of the United States to the said lands, and shall not interfere with adverse valid rights of others, if such exist, to any part of the land embraced in the claim and survey aforesaid.
Approved, April 20, 1854.