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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · June 4, 1872 · Chapter CCCII

Chapter CCCII. to cancel a certain Deed to the United States of America

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CHAP. CCCII.— An Act to cancel a certain Deed to the United States of America. June 4, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the deed from ThomasDeed of Thomas and Anna Whaley to the United States declared of no effect, &c. Whaley and Anna Whaley, his wife, to the United States of America, dated the twenty-eighth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-six, conveying certain lands in Vicksburg, in in the State of Mississippi, recorded in book Z, pages 447 and 448, of the records of deeds in the county of Warren, in said State of Mississippi, be, and the same hereby is, cancelled and declared of no effect, and the United States of America renounce and disclaim all right and title to said lands by said deed conveyed.
Approved, June 4, 1872.
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