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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · February 12, 1889 · Chapter 147

Chapter 147.

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CHAP. 147.— An act to confirm the homestead entry of Hugh Foster.February 12, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Hugh Foster. Homestead entry by confirmed. That homestead entry numbered seventeen hundred and ninety, made at the United States land office at Marquette, Michigan, March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, by Hugh Foster, upon the south half of the northeast and north half of the southeast quarter of section ten, in township forty-seven north, of range two east, under authority of the instructions of the Commissioner of the General 1275 Land Office to the local officers, dated July second, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and recommended for confirmation, by special act of Congress, by the Secretary of the Interior, in a decision on the case rendered November eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed as of the day of the date of said entry: *Provided, however*, That due proof of compliance*Proviso*.
Proof. with the provisions of the homestead law shall be made in the usual manner. Approved, February 12, 1889.
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