Chapter CXLVIII. authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a Patent to F
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CHAP. CXLVIII.— An Act authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a Patent to F. N. Blake for one hundred and sixty Acres of Land in Kansas.July 13, 1868. Whereas military bounty land-warrant number eighty-two thousandPreamble.1855, ch. 207.Vol. x. p. 701 five hundred and seventy-eight, for one hundred and sixty acres, was issued under the act of March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, in the name of Betsey Foster, and by her sold and assigned to F.
N. Blake, and thereafter lost by said Blake; and whereas said Blake proved the loss and ownership of said warrant, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of pensions, and obtained the issue of a duplicate warrant, and has located the same on the northeast quarter of section twenty-five, in township six south, of range one east, in the State of Kansas: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the commissioner of thePatent for land to issue to F.
N. Blake. general land office shall cause a patent for said land to be issued to F. N. Blake, as if the said duplicate land-warrant had been assigned to him by the warrantee. Approved, July 13, 1868.