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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · June 7, 1858 · Chapter CXV

Chapter CXV. *for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Jean Babtiste Devidrine.* June 7, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the legal representatives Representatives of Jean Babtiste Devidrine, confirmed in claim to l

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Chap. CXV.— An Act *for the Relief of the legal Representatives of Jean Babtiste Devidrine.* June 7, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the legal representatives Representatives of Jean Babtiste Devidrine, confirmed in claim to land in Louisiana and patent to issue.of Jean Babtiste Devidrine, late of Louisiana, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their claim to that tract or parcel of land known on the public surveys of the southwestern land district of that State as lot number forty-five (45), in township number four
(4)south, range number three
(3)east, and lot number seventy-three (73), in township number four
(4)south, range number four
(4)east, containing about four hundred arpents, or three hundred and fifty acres of land, and that a patent shall issue Proviso.therefor as in other cases: *Provided,* That this net shall only be construed as a relinquishment of whatever title may be now vested in the United States, and shall in nowise interfere with any valid adverse claim of other or third parties, should such there be. Approved, June 7, 1858.
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