Chapter 89. To confirm to the heirs of Mrs
580 words·~3 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-28/chapter-89-4030645·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 89.— An Act To confirm to the heirs of Mrs. Courtney Ann Claiborne the title to a certain tract of land in the State of Louisiana.May 30, 1894. Whereas under the Act of Congress approved June twenty-second,Preamble.Vol. 12, p. 85. eighteen hundred and sixty, “An Act for final adjustment of private-land claims in the State of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other purposes,” and extended by an Act of Congress approved MarchVol. 14, p. 544. second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An Act to extend the provisions of an Act entitled ‘An Act for final adjustment of private-land claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other purposes,’” the register and receiver of the land office at New Orleans, Louisiana, acting as commissioners under the Acts aforesaid, have reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office that there ought to be confirmed to the heirs of Mrs.
Courtney Ann Claiborne, deceased, who holds, under Julian Paydras, a tract of land containing five hundred and twenty arpents, more or less, in the State of Louisiana, in the parish of West Feliciana, and described as follows, to wit: A certain tract of land situated in the Greensburg district, Louisiana, in the parish of West Feliciana, facing on the Mississippi River, left bank descending, it being the upper or western portion of section numbered thirty-nine, township three south, range three west, and containing thirteen arpents front on river by forty arpents in depth, or such a depth as said section hath; the whole tract of which this claim forms a part being known on the approved plat as claimed by Madam Maurain; and Whereas it is proved that the tract now known on official plats as section numbered thirty-nine was ceded to Julian Paydras by Don Guyosa de Lemos on the twenty-third day of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight; and Whereas Joseph T.
Dandore and Guy Richard, executors of said Paydras, sold the said tract to Madames Maurain and Bonneau on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five; and Whereas by act of partition on the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, Madames Bonneau and Maurain divided the tract between them, the former receiving as her portion thirteen arpents front with all the depth from the upper or western side of the said section; and Whereas Madam Bonneau did, by and through her executor, W.
Charles Paydras, sell this tract to J. O. Van Winkle, on the sixteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven; and Whereas on the eleventh day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, the said Van Winkle did sell this said land to Mrs. Courtney Ann Claiborne: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*,Mrs. Courtney Ann Claiborne.Title to certain lands in Louisiana confirmed to heirs.
That the said tract of land, containing five hundred and twenty arpents, more or less, situated in the parish of West Feliciana, on the Mississippi River, in the State of Louisiana, and as further described above, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed to the heirs, executors, or assigns of Mrs. Courtney Ann 986FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 89, 90, 90, 97. 1894. Claiborne; and that all the right, title, and the interest of the United States in and to the same be, and the same are hereby, granted and confirmed to said heirs, executors, or assigns.
Approved, May 30, 1894.