Chapter XXIX. for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of William Weeks
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Chap. XXIX.— An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representatives of William Weeks. Jan. 12, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the heirs and legal representatives of William Weeks be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to a tract of land, containing two thousand and thirty arpens, situatedLand claim confirmed to heirs and representatives of William Weeks. in the parish of West Feliciana, State of Louisiana, being the same granted to said William Weeks, by an order of survey of “Grand Pre,” then governor of West Florida, on the thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and six, according to the survey made by Ira C.
Kneeland, deputy-surveyor, under commission from said governor, on the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and six, of record in the office of the register of the land-office at Greensburg, Louisiana, and a patent shall issue therefor: *Provided,* That this act shall be held and taken only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States. Approved, January 12, 1855.