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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · June 16, 1860 · Chapter CXLI

Chapter CXLI. *recognizing the Survey of the Grand Cheniere Island, State of Louisiana, as approved by the Surveyor-General, and for other Purposes.* June 16, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the anomalous survey of Survey

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Chap. CXLI.— An Act *recognizing the Survey of the Grand Cheniere Island, State of Louisiana, as approved by the Surveyor-General, and for other Purposes.* June 16, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the anomalous survey of Survey of Grand Cheniere Island confirmed.the Grand Cheniere Island, in the southwestern district of Louisiana, as approved by R. W. Boyd, surveyor-general, on the twenty-eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be, and the same is hereby confirmed, and persons residing thereon at the date of this act who, according to the preemption laws now in force, would be entitled to a preemption, Preemption rights granted.shall be allowed such right on the lands referred to in this bill; but such preference right shall be confined to the single subdivision of land upon which the party may reside, and shall exceed, in no case, one hundred and sixty acres.
Approved, June 16, 1860.
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