Chapter XXVII. authorizing the Legal Representatives of Antoine Vasquez, Hypolite Vasquez, Joseph Vasquez, and John Colligan, to enter certain Lands in Missouri
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Chap. XXVII.— An Act authorizing the Legal Representatives of Antoine Vasquez, Hypolite Vasquez, Joseph Vasquez, and John Colligan, to enter certain Lands in Missouri. Jan. 12, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Representatives of Antoine Vasquez, and others, authorized to enter certain land That the legal representatives of Antoine Vasquez, Hypolite Vasquez, Joseph Vasquez, and John Colligan, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, at THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 28, 29, 30. 1855. 839 any land-office in the State of Missouri, in such quantities, agreeably toin Missouri in lieu of another claim. the United States surveys, as the claimants may desire, a quantity of land subject to private entry, not exceeding eight hundred arpens for each of the three persons first above named, and twelve hundred arpens for said Colligan, in lieu of, and in compensation for, a claim of that quantity allowed to them by the board of commissioners appointed for the final adjustment of private land claims in the State of Missouri, and confirmed to them by “an act confirming claims to land in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes,” approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and the register or registers of the land-offices aforesaid shall receive the proper applications and proofs, and shall issue the necessary certificate or certificates, on return of which to the General Land-Office, with proofs sufficient, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, to establish the right of the claimants as such legal representatives, a patent or patents shall issue, as in other cases.Patent to issue.
Approved, January 12, 1855.