Chapter 187. To authorize a corrected patent to be issued for the donation laud claim of Wheelock Simmons and wife
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CHAP. 187.— An Act To authorize a corrected patent to be issued for the donation laud claim of Wheelock Simmons and wife.August 1, 1894. Whereas in the patent issued to Wheelock Simmons and LucindaPreamble. Simmons, his wife, dated April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for their donation land claim, in the county of Washington, in the State of Oregon, a mistake was made in the description of the lands intended to be confirmed to them thereby, and the boundary lines thereof, as given in said patent, do not connect; and Whereas it has been held by the Secretary of the Interior that such mistake can not now be corrected without authority from Congress:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Wheelock Simmons and wife.Corrected patent issued for donation land claim in Oregon. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be issued to said Wheelock Simmons and wife a corrected patent, to show upon its face that it is issued in lieu of the patent heretofore issued to them, for the lauds described in a special plat of a survey of their donation land claim approved November eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and certified by the surveyor-general of Oregon to the local land office August eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty seven, described as FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 187, 188, 203. 1894.995 follows, to wit: Beginning at a point five and five one-hundredths chains west and fifteen and sixty-five one hundredths chains north from the northeast corner of section one, township one south, range three west; thence west forty chains; thence south fifty-nine degrees, west twenty-four chains; thence south twenty-five degrees, west twenty and thirteen one-hundredths chains; thence south thirty degrees thirty minutes, east forty-eight and twenty-five one-hundredths chains; thence east twenty-six and fifteen one-hundredths chains; thence south one and seventy-five one-hundredths chains; thence east fifty-eight and eighty-five one-hundredths chains; thence north fifty-seven and seventy-five one-hundredths chains; thence west thirty-nine and ninety-three one-hundredths chains; thence north fifteen and sixty-five one-hundredths chains to the place of beginning: to be divided between husband and wife, as in the original patent, and that said patent shall have the same force and effect as to the title of all purchasers and grantees of any portion of said land claim from said patentees, or either of them, as if the same had been executed and delivered at the date of the execution of said patent, dated April twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Approved, August 1, 1894.