Chapter LIV. *to authorize the Claimants in Right of John Huertas to enter certain Lands in Florida.* Feb. 23, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the claimants in right of Claimants under John Huertas may enter certain land
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Chap. LIV.— An Act *to authorize the Claimants in Right of John Huertas to enter certain Lands in Florida.* Feb. 23, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the claimants in right of Claimants under John Huertas may enter certain lands in Florida.John Huertas to a tract of six thousand acres in Florida, confirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States at the January term in eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, at any land-office in the State of Florida, the quantity of three thousand three hundred and thirty-two acres and thirty-hundredths of an acre of any of the public lands in that State subject to private entry, the same being in addition to the area of two thousand six hundred and sixty-seven acres and seventy-hundredths of an acre surveyed for said claim, and designated as section forty-eight, in township nine south, of range twenty seven east, in the St.
Augustine land district, Florida, and being the difference between the quantity embraced by said survey and the six thousand acres confirmed for said claim as aforesaid; and the register and receiver of any of the aforesaid land-offices shall receive the proper applications and proofs, and shall issue the necessary certificate; upon the return of which to the General Land-Office, with satisfactory proof of the Proviso.rights of the claimants, a patent shall issue for the lands so located: *Provided,* said land shall not be located upon any land within six miles of any railroad.
Approved, February 23, 1859.