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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · Feb. 18, 1871 · Chapter LX

Chapter LX. confirming the Title of Nathan Boyer to certain Lands in the State of Michigan

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CHAP. LX.— An Act confirming the Title of Nathan Boyer to certain Lands in the State of Michigan.Feb. 18, 1871. Whereas Nathan Boyer, under date of June twentieth, eighteen hundredPreamble. and sixty-five, entered at the local land office at East Saginaw, Michigan, per cash entry number nine thousand three hundred and thirty-five, the south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty, township thirteen north, of range two west, at the graduation price of twenty-five cents per acre, having settled thereon, filed his declaratory statement under the preemption laws, and continued his residence upon and improvement of said tract until the date of entry, except during his absence in the military service of the United States; and whereas the graduation act was repealed June second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, before the year allowed Mr.
Boyer in which to make proof and1862, ch. 94, § 3.Vol. xii. p. 413. payment for said land had expired: 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 Nathan Boyer.1854, ch. 244.Vol. x. p. 574. general land office be directed to issue a patent to said Nathan Boyer, as per said entry for the land described, the same as if the title had been completed under the graduation act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
Approved, February 18, 1871.
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