Chapter 926.
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CHAP. 926.— An act to confirm the title to certain lands in Platte County, Missouri, and authorize patents to be issued therefor to Kinsey B. Cecil.August 4, 1886. Whereas George Smith did, on the ninth day of April, anno DominiPreamble. eighteen hundred and sixty-two, make entry at the United States land-office at Boonville, in the State of Missouri, of the following-described land situated in the county of Platte, in said State of Mis- FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 926, 927, 933. 1886. 877 souri, to wit:
The northeast fractional quarter and the southeast fractional quarter (west of Bee Creek), section thirty-one, township fifty-three, range thirty-five, containing nineteen and fifty-two hundredths acres, per cash certificate numbered thirty-eight thousand three, hundred and seventy eight, dated April ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and Whereas Joseph Meyer did, on the said ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, make entry at the said United States land-office at Boonville, Missouri, of the following-described land, to wit:
The northwest fractional quarter of the northeast fractional quarter (west of Bee Creek), section thirty-one, township fifty-three, range thirty-five, containing one and seventy-three hundredths acres, per cash certificate numbered thirty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-seven, dated April ninth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and Whereas the purchase-money for said fractions of land is still retained by the Government of the United States, and said lands have long since passed into the hands of innocent purchasers, who have occupied the same, paid taxes, and made valuable improvements thereon, having had no notice that said entries had been canceled until recently:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public land entries confirmed to Kinsey H. Cecil, assignee of George Smith and Joseph Meyer. That the above-described entries be, and the same are, confirmed; and that patents are hereby authorized to be issued for said described lands to Kinsey B. Cecil, the assignee of said George Smith and Joseph Meyer. Approved, August 4, 1886. Chapter 927: to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue to George K.
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