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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · August 18, 1856 · Chapter CXL

Chapter CXL. for the Relief of Talbot C

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Chap. CXL.— An Act for the Relief of Talbot C. Dousman.August 18, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatTitle of Talbot C. Dousman to certain land at Green Bay, Wis., confirmed. the title of Talbot C. Dousman, the assignee of James Vieaux, to a certain tract of land at Green Bay, Wisconsin, confirmed to said Vieaux by the commissioners appointed under the act of Congress, approved February twenty-one, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An Act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims1823, ch. 10.Vol. iii. p. 724. in the territory of Michigan,” and which is described as follows: commencing at low watermark on Fox River, and running west eighty arpents, and bounded on the north by a certain tract occupied by the United States garrison, west by wild lands, south by a tract of land claimed by John Baptiste Longevine, senior, and east by Fox River, being five arpents in breadth, more or less, be, and the same is hereby confirmed to the said Talbot C.
Dousman; and that the Commissioner of the General Land-Office cause the said tract of land to be surveyed in the sameSurvey. manner as other private claims to lands at Green Bay have been surveyed; and that he be required to issue a patent thereon to and in the name ofPatent. the said Talbot C. Dousman, as the assignee of the said James Vieaux, as in other cases, and according to the provisions of the fifth section of the said act of eighteen hundred and twenty-three. Approved, August 18, 1856.
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