Chapter 82.
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CHAP. 82.— An act to amend the act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and for other purposes.May 3, 1886. Preamble. Vol. 5, p. 666. Lots granted to county of Dubuque, Iowa.Whereas, by an act of Congress approved June fifteenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty-four, a grant was made to the county of Dubuque, Territory of Iowa, in the following words: " “That the following-described pieces or parcels of land are hereby granted and given to the county of Dubuque, in the Territory of Iowa, to wit:
Two lots and a half lying and being situate in the town of Dubuque, on the northwest corner of Seventh and Locust streets, in said county, being the same land upon which the old county jail now stands, and is designated on the Government plat of said town as ‘public square.’ Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the county commissioners of the county of Dubuque be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to make sale or otherwise dispose of the lots of land described in the first section of this act, in such manner as will best subserve the interests of said county;” and " Whereas through a clerical error, said jail lot or public square was described as being on the northwest corner of Seventh and Locust streets, when it was in fact on the northeast corner thereof; and 21 Whereas the said county of Dubuque, under the powers conferred by said act, sold to John and Thomas Burton the said tract of land situated on the northeast corner of Seventh and Locust streets, in said town of Dubuque, on which the old county jail stood and designated on the Government plat of said town as “public square,” the same being a rectangular tract fronting one hundred and fourteen feet on Seventh street and one hundred and twenty-seven feet and eleven inches on Locust street; but in the deed from said county to said Job n and Thomas Burton the same clerical error was made as to the corner on which said tract was situated as was made in said act:
Therefore, as curative of the error aforesaid, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Error in description of land corrected. That the said rectangular tract of land on the northeast corner of Seventh and Locust streets, in the city of Dubuque, Dubuque County, State of Iowa, fronting one hundred and fourteen feet on Seventh street and one hundred and twenty-seven feet and eleven inches on Locust street, being the premises on which the old county jail formerly stood, and designated on the Government plat as “public square,” be, and is hereby, granted and the title thereto confirmed in and to said county of Dubuque, and its grantees, the said John and Thomas Burton, their heirs and assigns forever, with like effect in all respects as though correctly described in said original act and in the said conveyance thereunder by said county.
Approved, May 3, 1886.