Chapter 856. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the heir or heirs of one Tawamnoha, or Martha Crayon, conveying to them certain lands in the State of North Dakota, confirming certain conveyances thereof, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 856.— An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the heir or heirs of one Tawamnoha, or Martha Crayon, conveying to them certain lands in the State of North Dakota, confirming certain conveyances thereof, and for other purposes. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Conveyance to heirs of Tawamnoha, or Martha Crayon, of Devils Lake Sioux Reservation, authorized.
That the Secretary of the interior be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed, upon due proof of the death of one Tawamnoha, or Martha Crayon, an Indian woman, late of the Devils Lake Sioux Indian Reservation, and due proof of 1437heirship, to issue a patent to her heir or heirs conveying to them the following-described premises, situated in the county of Benson. State of North Dakota, to wit: The lots numbered two and three of section—lots described. fifteen, the lot numbered one of section twenty-two, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section fourteen, in township one hundred and fifty-three north, of range sixty-seven west of the fifth principal meridian, in the State of North Dakota, containing one hundred and fifty-nine acres and eight one-hundredths of an acre: the said premises being land allotted to her in severalty by trust allotment patent of date November second, eighteen hundred and ninety-two; such patent so to be issued to convey to said heir or heirs the said premises in fee, discharged of any trust or incumbrance whatsoever.
Sec. 2. That a certain deed, of date October twenty-third, eighteenCertain deed of conveyance legalized. hundred and ninety-eight, executed, acknowledged, and delivered by Matochatka and Mahpiyatokahewin, the father and mother of said Tawamnoha, or Martha Crayon, and parties entitled to succeed to her estate by the laws of the State of North Dakota, she having died without issue, which said deed was duly tiled for record in the office of the register of deeds in and for Benson County, State of North Dakota, and recorded in Book E of Deeds, on page six hundred, and which purported to convey the said premises to Thomas Crayon, the surviving husband of said Tawamnoha, or Martha Crayon, be and the same is hereby legalized and in all things confirmed and ratified.
Approved, March 3, 1901.