Chapter 616. For the relief of Thomas Rosbrugh
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CHAP. 616.— An Act For the relief of Thomas Rosbrugh. June 2, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioner of the Thomas Rosbrugh. Granted homestead entry in lieu of other land. General Land Office be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to permit Thomas Rosbrugh, of Saint Clair County, Missouri, to enter one hundred and sixty acres of public land, subject to entry under the homestead or settlement laws, not mineral nor in the actual occupation of any settler, in lieu of the southeast quarter of section twenty-four, in township thirty-eight, of range twenty-seven west, in Saint Clair County, Missouri, which land was entered by said Thomas Rosbrugh on December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under the homestead laws, said entry being reported to be without conflict by inst ruction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the date of January twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, the title to half of which land failed because of a prior disposition of the same, which did not then appear upon the records of the Land Office, and the entry of said Rosbrugh was canceled: *Provided, however*, That the said *Provisos*. —condition.
Thomas Rosbrugh shall not have made any other entry of land of the United States under the homestead laws: *And provided further*, That a final certificate and patent shall issue to the said Thomas Rosbrugh or his legal heirs or representatives upon such entry as he may make Proof of residence, etc., waived. hereunder without proof of residence or cultivation. Approved, June 2, 1900.