Chapter 217. for the relief of Joseph F
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CHAP. 217.— An Act for the relief of Joseph F. Wilson.June 15, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Joseph F. Wilson.Land-warrants to be issued to. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue to Joseph F. Wilson, or his legal representatives, a number of warrants equal to two hundred acres, in tracts not less than the subdivisions provided for in the United States land laws, to be located by the said Wilson, or bis legal representatives or assigns, on any of the unoccupied and unappropriated public lands of the United States, subject to preemption or homestead entry, in lieu of the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, in township twenty-five north, of range four west, situate in White County, Indiana, and the southwest quarter of the southwest, quarter of section thirty-five, in township thirty-eight north, of range four east, situate in Elkhart County, Indiana, which said tracts of land were entered by and patented to William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H.
Smith,1872, ch. 338.17 Stat., 333. under and by virtue of the provisions of the acts of Congress approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and March1873, ch. 274.17 Stat., 605. third eighteen hundred and seventy-three, relating to additional homesteads, and by the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H. Smith, after their said entry, sold and conveyed to the said Wilson, and of which the said Wilson was divested and dispossessed by the judgments and decrees of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana, at the November term, anno Domini eighteen huudred and seventy-six, thereof, by reason, as the said court held and decided, of a prior disposal of said lands by the United States to persons other than the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H.
Smith; and the said Wilson or his legal representatives or assigns, after the location of the said warrants on such lands as be or they may select, shall be allowed patents for the lands so located. And the lands taken, selected, and located, as authorized and provided by this act, shall be in full satisfaction of any claim, right, or benefit w'hich the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H. Smith may have, or may have bad, under and by virtue, of the said acts of Congress, as well as in full satisfaction of any claim which the said Wilson, as assignee, or grantee of the said William Voight, Josiah Smith, and John H.
Smith, may have, or may have had, against the United States. 546 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 217, 218, 219, 220, 221. 1878. Sec. 2. And the patent for the southwest quarter of section twentynine,James S. Chilton.Surrender of erroneous patent, and issue of correct one. in township twenty-five north, of range five west, issued to James S. Chilton, on bis location of military bounty-land warrant number six hundred and sixty-four, under the act of February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, may be surrendered and duly relinquished to the United States; whereupon a patent shall be issued in the name of said James S.
Chilton for the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, in township twenty-five north, of range four west, being the tract intended to be located by him, and the entry of said tract in said range five by said Chilton to be canceled. But nothing contained in this section shall be construed to limit or qualify the rights of said Wilson under this act, except that, before the warrants herein authorized and provided for in his favor shall issue, he shall relinquish and reconvey to the United States the lands of which he was so divested or dispossessed.
Approved, June 15, 1878.