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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · March 2, 1857 · Chapter LXX

Chapter LXX. *for the Relief of John L

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Chap. LXX.— An Act *for the Relief of John L. Vattier.* March 2, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That John L. Vattier be and John L. Vattier authorized to locate 2,880 acres as indemnity.he hereby is entitled to select and locate of the public lands of the United States open to entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, two thousand eight hundred and eighty acres, for which he shall duly receive a patent as indemnity for the undivided half of the claim of George Schamp and Pelagre Schamp, his wife, as filed before the register and receiver of the land-office of the southwestern land district of the State of Louisiana, as reported by them first of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-four.
Approved, March 2, 1857.
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