Chapter 815. restoring the right of pre-emption to Jesse A
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CHAP. 815.— An Act restoring the right of pre-emption to Jesse A. Corn.August 8, 1888. Whereas Jesse A. Corn, in eighteen hundred and seventy-fourPreamble. filed a preemption claim upon a tract of public land in Colorado, which said land in eighteen hundred and seventy-five became worth-less for agricultural purposes by reason of an overflow of the Arkansas River, and thereupon he relinquished the same to the United States; and Whereas said Corn, in eighteen hundred and eighty-four, settled and filed upon another tract of public land in Colorado, believing 1150 that he had the legal right so to do, and has since resided upon, improved, and cultivated the same in good faith, and now has a claim for entry thereof pending in the Land Department, which the said department has refused to approve for patent, and to which there is no adverse claimant:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Jesse A. Corn.May pre empt certain land in Colorado., That the said Jesse A. Corn be and he is hereby, authorized to preempt the said land now claimed by him on making the proofs required by the provisions of the preemption law. Approved, August 8, 1888.