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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · May 9, 1860 · Chapter XLIII

Chapter XLIII. to authorize the Issuance of Patents in the Name of James S

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Chap. XLIII.— An Act to authorize the Issuance of Patents in the Name of James S. Douglass, upon certain Land Entries made at Chockchuma, Mississippi.May 9, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Commissioner of the General Land-Office be, and he is hereby, authorized to cancel the patentsPatents for land in Mississippi to issue to James S. Douglass. heretofore issued to James S. Coleman upon land entries number three thousand one hundred and forty-eight, three thousand one hundred and forty-nine, three thousand one hundred and fifty, three thousand one hundred and fifty-one, three thousand one hundred and fifty-two, and three thousand one hundred and fifty-three, made on the thirty-first March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, in the former Chockchuma land district, Mississippi; and that said Commissioner be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue patents for the lands embraced by said entries to James S.
Douglass, Senior, in whose name said entries ought to have been carried upon the records, by the land officers at Chockchuma. Approved, May 9, 1860.
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