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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · March 3, 1857 · Chapter CLIX

Chapter CLIX. *for the Relief of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all that certain tract or Land claim in Louisiana confirmed to the Parish of Asce

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Chap. CLIX.— An Act *for the Relief of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Ascension, State of Louisiana.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all that certain tract or Land claim in Louisiana confirmed to the Parish of Ascension.parcel of land situate on the west side of the Mississippi, in the parish of Ascension, containing four arpents one toise and five feet in front, and forty arpents in depth, as claimed by Isadora Blanchard, for the parish church of the parish of Ascension, under number three hundred and ninety-one, and reported favorably on by the old board of commissioners for the eastern district of New Orleans Territory, and as represented in the survey of a portion of township eleven south, in ranges fourteen and fifteen east, in the surveys of the United States, southeastern district of Louisiana, west of the Mississippi, be and the same is hereby confirmed to the inhabitants of the parish of Ascension, to and for the uses and purposes for which the same has been heretofore held and used: *Provided also,* Act to operate only as a relinquishmentThat this act shall be only considered a relinquishment on the part of the United States, and not to interfere with the rights of others.
Approved, March 3, 1857.
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