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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · Jan. 10, 1871 · Chapter XVII

Chapter XVII. for the Relief of Zachariah Pettijohn

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CHAP. XVII.— An Act for the Relief of Zachariah Pettijohn.Jan. 10, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the claim of ZachariahClaim of Zachariah Pettijohn under homestead act confirmed.1862, ch. 75.Vol. xii. p. 392. Pettijohn, made under the homestead act of May twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the northwest quarter of section thirty, in township one hundred and seventeen of range twenty-eight in the district of lands subject to sale at Greenleaf, Minnesota, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and upon the completion of such claim by payment of the final commissions required by the aforesaid act, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be issued to the said Zachariah Pettijohn aPatent to issue. patent for the said land as in other cases.
Approved, January 10, 1871.
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