Chapter CCXVII. confirming the claim of Maria Holliday to a tract of land in Louisiana
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Chap. CCXVII.— An Act confirming the claim of Maria Holliday to a tract of land in Louisiana.July 13, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That Maria Holliday be, and she is hereby, confirmed in her claim to a tract of land, now in her possession, lying between Land claim confirmed. the river Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain, and about sixteen miles above the city of New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, and having a front of twenty-four and a half arpens on the said river, and extending in depth to the said lake: *Provided,* That such confirmation Proviso. shall only operate as a relinquishment of all right and title on the part of the United States to said land. Approved, July 13, 1832.