Chapter LV. *for the Relief of certain Purchasers of Lands from the legal Representatives of Bartholomew Cousin*
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CHAP. LV.— An Act *for the Relief of certain Purchasers of Lands from the legal Representatives of Bartholomew Cousin*. Feb. 18, 1871. Whereas the claim of Bartholomew Cousin, or his legal representatives,Preamble. is embraced in Recorder Bates'[s] report of February second, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and confirmed to the extent of a league square, and survey numbered two thousand one hundred and ninety-six was made for the same in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen; and whereas a further confirmation was made of eight hundred and ninety-nine arpens, or six hundred and sixty-four and seventy-eight hundredths1832, ch. 188.
Vol. iv. p. 565.1833, ch. 84. Vol. iv. p. 661.1836, ch. 361. Vol. v. p. 126. acres, in the favorable report, numbered sixty-one, of the board of commissioners, under the acts of Congress of the years eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, confirmed by the act of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, An area may be designated in full satisfaction of the claim of Bartholomew Cousin.
That it shall and may be lawful for the county surveyor of the county of Cape Girardeau, or whomsoever may be designated by the commissioner of the general land office, to select an area, in compact form, as near as may be to the quantity of acres of the confirmation by act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, according to legal subdivisions, and in full satisfaction of said claim: beginning at a corner where a line of the survey numbered two thousand one hundred and ninety-six intersects the north line of section twelve, township thirty-one north, range eleven east, near the northeast corner of said section twelve; thence with said line of said survey two thousand one hundred and ninety-six to a corner of said survey two thousand one hundred and ninety-six, in section twenty-three of said township and range; thence westwardly on a line a sufficient distance that a line projected northwardly parallel with the western boundary line of surveyBoundaries. numbered two thousand one hundred and ninety-six, and running eastwardly to the place of beginning, will include the said quantity of six hundred and sixty-four and seventy-eight hundredths acres; and thereafter, and within one year from the passageParties claiming in the right of Cousin any tract outside, &c. may, upon, &c. pay therefor and at what rates. of this act, the parties claiming in right of said Cousin any tract outside of the limits of said survey numbered two thousand one hundred and ninety-six, and the selection authorized by this act to make good the second confirmation aforesaid, be, and are hereby, authorized, on satisfactory proof to the register and receiver of the land district in which said tracts are situated, of such right, to make payment therefor at the rale of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, or by pre-emption or claim of homestead, according to the laws of the United States in such cases made and provided.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That any tract or parcel of land,Persons residing upon, &c. any lands not included in the survey. &c. may enter them, &c. or claim them as homesteads. after the survey and adjustment of said confirmation, which is not embraced therein but withheld from sale by the government of the United States by reason of the supposed interference and non-survey of said second confirmation, thereafter and in one year from the adjustment of said survey any party or person residing upon and cultivating such tract or parcel of land withheld from sale as aforesaid at and before the passage of this act, upon making satisfactory proof to the register and receiver of the land district in which such tracts or parcels are situate of actual settlement according to the provisions of this section, be, and are416FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 55–59. 1871. hereby, authorized to enter said tracts, not to exceed one hundred and 1862, ch. 75. Vol. xii. p. 392.1864. ch. 38. Vol. xiii. p. 35.sixty acres, including improvements, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, or claim the same as a homestead, agreeably to the act of Congress granting homestead to actual settlers. Approved, February 18, 1871.