Chapter CXCVII. for the Relief of Sylvester Gray
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Chap. CXCVII.— An Act for the Relief of Sylvester Gray.June 22, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the claim of SylvesterLand claim of Sylvester Gray allowed.1841, ch. 16. Vol. v. p. 453. Gray, a free man of color, made under the preëmption act of September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, to the northwest quarter of section fourteen, in township forty-eight, of range thirteen, of the lands of the United States subject to sale at the land office at Superior, Wisconsin, be, and the same is hereby confirmed; and upon completion of such claim, by payment of the purchase-money, or the location of a bounty land warrant, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be issued to the said Sylvester Gray, a patent for the said land, as in other cases.
Approved, June 22, 1860.