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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 14 STAT. · Dec. 15, 1866 · Chapter III

Chapter III. *releasing to Francis S

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CHAP. III.— An Act *releasing to Francis S. Lyon the Interest of the United States in certain Lands*. Dec. 15, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Release to Francis S. Lyon of land in Alabama. That any interest which the United States have in the lands described in a deed executed by Wager Swayne, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, in the State of Alabama, to Francis S. Lyon, bearing date February third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be, and the same is hereby, released and confirmed to the said Lyon. Approved, December 15, 1866.
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