Chapter 894. to authorize the issuance of patent to certain land in Arkansas
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CHAP. 894.— An Act to authorize the issuance of patent to certain land in Arkansas.August 14, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Samuel J. Johnson.Location of land in Arkansas confirmed. That the location made by Samuel J. Johnson for the north half of southwest quarter of section seventeen in township twelve north, of range nine west, in Arkansas, containing eighty acres, on the fourth March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-one, with military bounty-land warrant number thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty-six, for eighty acres, under act March third, anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-five, in the name of Achilles Ferrill or Terrill, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and patent shall issue, Patent.*Proviso*.Adverse rights.notwithstanding the loss of said warrant: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall prejudice adverse rights accruing prior to the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the date of the location of said warrant, and that, should conflicting claims be presented, the rights of the claimants shall be adjudicated by the Department as in other cases.
Approved, August 14, 1888.