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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · January 29, 1861 · Chapter XXII

Chapter XXII. for the Relief of Robert A

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Chap. XXII.— An Act for the Relief of Robert A. Matthews.January 29, 1861. *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 and directed to payRepayment to Robert A. Matthews of price of land entry, since cancelled. to Robert A. Matthews, attorney of Charles W. Tosh, the amount of the price received from said Tosh for one hundred and fifty-five and sixty-two one hundredth acres of land, entered by him at the land-office, at Sioux City, in the State of Iowa, on the second October, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, as per register’s certificate and receiver’s receipt, both numbered four hundred and fifty-five, the said entry having since been cancelled as embracing land within the limits of the railroad grants made by Congress1856, ch. 28.Vol. xi. p. 9. by act approved fifteenth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-six.
Approved, January 29, 1861.
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