Chapter 67.
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CHAP. 67.— AN ACT for the relief of Jane Clark, Margaret A. Jack, Justina Peterson, and Mary Johanson.Feb. 13, 1879.Jane Clark.Margaret A. Jack.Justina Peterson.Mary Johanson. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office lie and is hereby authorized and directed to restore the entry of Jane Clark of lots three and four in section two township eighty-eight north range thirty-two west, and the entry of Margaret A.
Jack of the west half of the northeast quarter of section twenty, township eighty-nine north range thirty-one west and the entry of Justina Restoration of land entries.Peterson in her maiden name Justina Anderson of the east half of the southeast quarter of section fourteen township eighty-nine north range thirty-two west and the entry of Mary Johanson of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southwest. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. HI.
Ch. 67,69, 70,71,72,73. 1879. 597 quarter of section eight township eighty-nine north range thirty-two west, all in the State of Iowa, and to approve and carry the same to patent in the usual manner; and that each of said persons shall hold the lands so patented to her with the like exemptions as provided by the homestead laws of the United States : *Provided,* That as to the entries*Proviso.* made by virtue of this act, if occupied by the husbands of the said wives, or either of them, shall operate to debar them, and each of them, from making any entry of homestead or preemption in their own right.
Approved, February 13, 1879.