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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · Feb. 16, 1857 · Chapter XLVII

Chapter XLVII. *for the Relief of Martin Millett, of Iowa.* Feb. 16, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the preemption entry Pre-emption entry of Martin Millett confirmed.number twenty-nine thousand three hundred and forty, i

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Chap. XLVII.— An Act *for the Relief of Martin Millett, of Iowa.* Feb. 16, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the preemption entry Pre-emption entry of Martin Millett confirmed.number twenty-nine thousand three hundred and forty, in the name of Martin Millett, which was allowed at the Dubuque Land-Office, on the twenty-first February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and which includes the west half northeast quarter and east half northwest fractional quarter of section number eighteen, in township number ninety north, of range number six west, be and the same is hereby confirmed, and the commissioner of the General Land-Office is directed to cause a patent to be issued thereon.
Approved, February 16, 1857.
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