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

Chapter CXLI. *for the Relief of Emilie R

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Chap. CXLI.— An Act *for the Relief of Emilie R. Hooe, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.* March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there is hereby granted Certain land at Prairie da Chieu granted to Mrs. Emilie R. Hooe.to Mrs. Emilie R. Hooe, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, the widow of the late Alex. S. Hooe, a tract of land, at said Prairie du Chien, containing about sixteen acres, it being the same tract of land conveyed for a specific purpose and without consideration, by Joseph Rolittle, the father of said Emilie R, Hooe, to the United States, on the nineteenth of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, the same being no longer used or wanted for the purpose for which it was conveyed.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That this act shall only operate as a This act to operate only as a release of title.release of the United States from all claim to the premises hereby granted. Approved, March 3, 1857.
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