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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · Aug. 11, 1856 · Chapter LXXXV

Chapter LXXXV. *to confirm to certain Persons therein named, their Titles to certain Lots tn Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.* Aug. 11, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That all those farm and villageCertain farm and village lots a

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Chap. LXXXV.— An Act *to confirm to certain Persons therein named, their Titles to certain Lots tn Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.* Aug. 11, 1856. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That all those farm and villageCertain farm and village lots at Prairie du Chien confirmed. lots at Prairie du Chien, in the State of Wisconsin, as designated upon the plat of the private land claims at said place, in volume four of the public lands American State Papers, which plat was made in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, by Isaac Lee, Esquire, the agent appointed by the commissioners to adjust land titles at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, which have not heretofore been confirmed and patented to the claimants, are hereby confirmed unto the several persons named upon said plat and the report of said Lee, and to their assigns and legal representatives; and village lots numbers six, ten, and eleven, in the main village, as designated upon said plat, are hereby confirmed to Hercules L.
Dousman; and lot number nine, in said village, to Edward W. Pelton; and patents to the lots hereby confirmed, shall issue to such persons as now own, or as shall have the right to the same: *Provided,*This confirmation to be only a relinquishment of title. That the confirmation hereby made shall not interfere with any heretofore made, and that such confirmation shall only operate as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall in no manner interfere with any valid adverse right of any persons, if such exist, to the same land.
Approved, August 11, 1856. Chapter LXXVI: to provide for the Public Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools throughout the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, without the Limits of the Cities of Washington and Georgetown. 11 Stat. 33 1856-08-11 Chapter LXXVI Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-01-11 34 2 public
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