Chapter CXXV. for the Relief of Francis Lavonture and Pierre Grignon
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Chap. CXXV.— An Act for the Relief of Francis Lavonture and Pierre Grignon.June 13, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the titles to certain tracts of land at Green Bay, Wisconsin, confirmed to Francis Lavonture andLand titles of Francis Lavonture and Pierre Grignon confirmed.1823, ch. 10.Vol. iii. p. 724. Pierre Grignon by the commissioners appointed under the act of Congress, approved February twenty-one, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the Territory of Michigan,” and which are described as follows:
To Francis Lavonture, “commencing at low-water mark on Fox River, and running west eighty arpens, or so far as to make said claim contain six hundred and forty acres, (as confirmed by said commissioners,) and bounded on the south by a certain tract occupied by the United States garrison, west and north by wild or uncultivated lands, and east by Fox River, being sixteen arpens in breadth;” and to Pierre Grignon for a piece or parcel of ground lying and being on the west side of Fox River, Green Bay, immediately below the first creek that empties into said river, about fifteen acres in front on the said river, and extending back indefinitely, be, and the same are hereby, ratified and confirmed; and that the Commissioner of the General Land-Office cause the said tracts of land to be surveyed in the same manner as other private claims to lands in Green Bay have been surveyed; and that he be required to issue patents thereon to and in the names of the aforesaid Francis Lavonture and Pierre Grignon, respectively, subject to such legal transfers or assignments as may have been made by them, or either of them, or their heirs or legal representatives, at any time subsequent to the confirmation to them, respectively, by the said commissioner, according to the fifth section of the said act of eighteen hundred and twenty-three.
Approved, June 13, 1860.