Chapter 298. to confirm the title to the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section seven, township eighty-one north, range four east of the fifth principal meridian, Clinton County, Iowa
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CHAP. 298.— An Act to confirm the title to the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section seven, township eighty-one north, range four east of the fifth principal meridian, Clinton County, Iowa.June 18, 1878. Whereas, John M. Knott presumed that he had applied for andPreamble. entered from the United States, on the twenty-ninth of February, anno576 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 298, 299. 1878. Domini eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section seven, in township eighty-one north, range four east of the fifth principal meridian, in Clinton County, Iowa; and Whereas said John M.
Knott soon thereafter entered into possession and occupancy of said land, and has continued to occupy said land through bis grantees to the present; and Whereas said application through mistake described the land as being in range three east, instead of four east; and Whereas the Department of the Interior, under letter dated February nineteenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, has decided that said laud, in range four, is within the limits of the Iowa Central Air Line (now the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River) Railroad, and that the said tract of land inured to said road by virtue of the grant of land to the railroad aforesaid, under the act of Congress approved May fifteenth, anno Domiui eighteen hundred and fifty-six; and Whereas the said Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad, by deed dated November seventeenth, anuo Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-six, now on file in the General Land Office, has released and surrendered, into the United States, all the right and claim said Company now has, or may acquire, to the northeast quarter ot' the northwest quarter of section seven, township eighty-one north, range four east of the fifth principal meridian, upon the express condition that the United Stateswill issue a patent unto the said John M.
Knott for said land last described, to the end that his said grantees may be protected in the’r rights: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*J. M. Knott.Land-patent to issue to., That the deed to the United States from the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad to said land be accepted, and that a patent issue to the said John M. Knott for the same. Approved, June 18, 1878.