Chapter CCCVI. for the Relief of Sally C
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CHAP. CCCVI.— An Act for the Relief of Sally C. Northrop.July 27, 1868. Whereas the petition of Sally C. Northrop represents that in the yearPreamble.1847, ch. 8. § 9.Vol. ix. p. 125. eighteen hundred and forty-eight, Henry S. Atwood, a merchant, being solicited thereto by them, purchased the discharges of certain soldiers, and obtained from them powers of attorney to procure and assign the bounty land warrants to which they were entitled under the ninth section of the act of Congress, approved February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; and that before receiving the warrants on the discharges so purchased, the said Henry S.
Atwood died; and that subsequently said warrants were duly received by Franklin K. Beck, administrator of the estate of said Henry S. Atwood, and sold by said Beck, as such administrator, to the said Sally C. Northrop, for a full and valuable consideration; and whereas it is further represented by the petitioner that, according to the forms of transfer now prescribed by law, her title to said warrants is defective, and that after careful efforts through several years, she has been unable to find the soldiers in whose names said warrants were issued, and therefore unable to perfect her title to the same; the numbers of said warrants and the names of the soldiers in whose favor they were issued being as follows, viz: 61669, John Holly; 61575, William Luffman; 60813, George W.
Bowen; 60823, James Cooper; 61672, John Gilbert; 61556, Adam H. Underwood; 60817, Henry Truitt; 61674, Henry II. Foster; 61822, Joseph Ervin; 61675, John E. Edmundson; 61820, Thomas Johnson; 61676, William Davis; 62062, William M. Connor; 61663, Frederick S. Moore; 60814, Robert Bryan; 61665, William Holley; 60825, Green B. Driscoll; 60822, William Childers; 61819, James Loflen; 61664, John C. Lewis; 61569, Matthew V. Gray; 61806, William B. Buckelew; 61671, William II. Hines; 60816, Pierce L.
Alford; 61808, Peter Brookey; 61576, Silas M. Sullivan; 61809, Elebe II. Jones; 62111, William E. Binion; 62337, Zadoc Pitts; 60827, John Lamerson; 62335, Thomas Lindsey; 60826, Wilson Clark; 61807, Wiley Chesser; 60824, Joel Foster; 62336, Augustus Fatal; 60821, Jesse Le Grand; 61810, Persei N. Graham; 60815, Milton A. Roach; 62060, Ludwick B. Bright; 61667, Samuel C. Gordon; 61670, Patrick H. Harding; 61666, Farrer Lankaster; 62061, William F. Hunter; 62189, Nicholas M. Fain; 61805, John Bradley; 60812, Robert Beesley; 62064, Robert D.
Brooks; 70861, Columbus W. Howard; 62373, John M. Castello; 61577, James Murray; 61562, George Somers; 62063, Charles R. Brewer; ——, John Burner: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That upon the location, in accordancePatents to issue to Sally C. Northrop, &c. for land, &c. with law, by Sally C. Northrop, or her assigns, and the presentation of any of the foregoing bounty land warrants so located, to the commissioner of the general land office with proper legal evidence that the same has been assigned to the aforesaid Sally C.
Northrop by Franklin K. Beck, as administrator of the estate of the aforesaid Henry S. Atwood, it shall be the duty of said commissioner to issue patents for the land so located as in other cases. Approved, July 27, 1868.