Chapter CX. *for the Relief of the Heirs of William Turvin, deceased.* June 7, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the heirs of William William Turvin’s heirs may locate 960 arpents of land
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Chap. CX.— An Act *for the Relief of the Heirs of William Turvin, deceased.* June 7, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the heirs of William William Turvin’s heirs may locate 960 arpents of land.Turvin, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate, free of cost, nine hundred and sixty arpents of land, or as near thereto as the same can be done not exceeding that quantity, according to the legal subdivisions, on any of the public lands of the United States subject to entry at private sale at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; which lands, when so located, shall be in full for the claim of their said father, William Turvin, to a tract of land lying on the east side of the Mobile River and west of the Bayou Pascual, under a grant from the Spanish government, and which was recommended for confirmation on the report of the register and receiver of the land-office for the district of St.
Stephens. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Commissioner of the General When patent is to issue.Land-Office, upon the receipt of the certificate of entry from the proper land-office, be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a patent for the land so located. Approved, June 7, 1858.