Chapter CLXXVI. *for the relief of James B
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Chap. CLXXVI.— An Act *for the relief of James B. Sullivan, of the county of Rapides, in the state of Louisiana.* March 3, 1843. *Be it enacted, &c*., That James B. Sullivan be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted to complete his purchase of lot numbered sixteen,Authorized to complete the purchase of certain land. (or part of it, containing one hundred and fifty-three acres and a sixtieth part of an acre,) being lot sixteen, in township numbered five north of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, of range numbered three west of the basis meridian, in the south-western district of the state of Louisiana, situated in the parish of Rapides, in said state, and containing, according to the register’s certificate, one hundred and fifty-three acres and the sixteenth part of an acre, in virtue of his right of preemption, according to the act of Congress of the nineteenth of June,Act of June 19, 1834, ch. 54. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, which said laud is hereby declared to be no part of section sixteen, reserved for the use of schools in the congressional township in which the same is situated.
Approved, March 3, 1843.