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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · August 11, 1842 · Chapter CLIV

Chapter CLIV. *for the relief of Jubal B

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Chap. CLIV.— An Act *for the relief of Jubal B. Hancock.* August 11, 1842. *Be it enacted, &c*., That Jubal B. Hancock be, and he is hereby,Authorized to enter land, in lieu of, &c. authorized, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to enter at the proper land office, in legal sub-divisions, fourteen hundred and forty acres of any of the public lands of the United States, within the state of Mississippi, in lieu of a like quantity of land to which he and his three children, William M.
Han-cock, Mary M. Hancock, and Caroline D. Hancock, became entitled under the fourteenth article of the treaty of Dancing-rabbit creek, concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, on the twenty-seventh day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, which was improperly located for them by George W. Martin, the locating agent of the United States, and of which they have been deprived by the decision of the Secretary of War. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That it shall be the duty of thePatents lo be issued.
Commissioner of the General Land Office, on receiving certificates of said entry, to cause patents to be issued to Jubal B. Hancock, for six hundred and forty acres; to William M. Hancock, for three hundred and twenty acres; to Mary M. Hancock, for three hundred and twenty acres; and to Caroline D. Hancock, for one hundred and sixty acres: in conformity with the provisions of said treaty. Approved, August 11, 1842. Chapter CLV: for the relief of Eli Wheat and Stephen White. 6 Stat. 856 1842-08-11 Chapter CLV Charles C.
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