Chapter XLI. *for the Relief of William Yearwood, Sr.* Feb. 18, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Interior issue a land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land to be Land warrant to issue to Wi
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Chap. XLI.— An Act *for the Relief of William Yearwood, Sr.* Feb. 18, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Interior issue a land warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land to be Land warrant to issue to William Yearwood, senior.located pursuant to the provisions of an act of Congress, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, granting bounty-land to certain officers and soldiers in the military service of the United States, to William Yearwood, sr., father of William Yearwood, jr., first lieutenant in Captain Lowry’s company, second regiment Tennessee volunteers in the Mexican war, who was wounded at the battle of Cerro Gordo, and died of his wounds on the twenty-fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, leaving neither wife nor child.
Approved, February 18, 1859.