Chapter 157. to confirm the title of Benjamin E
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CHAP. 157.— An Act to confirm the title of Benjamin E. Edwards, his heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, to a certain tract of land in the Territory of New Mexico.June 06, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Benjamin E. Edwards.Title to land in New Mexico confirmed. That Benjamin E. Edwards, his heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, be, and are hereby, confirmed in the title to six hundred and forty acres of land, situate in the Territory of New Mexico, being the tract of land located by virtue of a certificate numbered four hundred and forty-four, of the second class, issued by the board of land-commissioners lor the county of Bexar and State of Texas, to one Andrew Flores, and dated the sixteenth day of August, anuo Domini eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and the same tract of land for which a patent was authorized to be issued by the act of the legislature of the State of Texas, entitled “An act to require the commissioner of the general laud-office to issue patents tor lands therein named”, approved December second, eighteen hundred and fifty, and which is more particularly described in the plat and field-notes accompanying the survey thereof, executed by R.
S. Howard, deputy surveyor, and approved of by the district surveyor for the District of Bexar, on the thirtieth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, which said survey is numbered thirty-eight, in section numbered fifteen, in what was then known as the Bexar land district for the State of Texas, and which is now of record in the office of the commissioner of the general land-office in the State of Texas. Sec. 2. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon theIssue of patent. receipt of the proper plat and survey, shall cause a patent to be issued to said Benjamin E.
Edwards, his heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, for the lands hereby confirmed: *Provided, however*, That such patent*Proviso.* shall be construed as a relinquishment only of title on the part of the United States, and shall not afiect the right of any third person. Approved, June 6, 1878.