Chapter CXLV. for the relief of Ann Brashears, of Mississippi
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Chap. CXLV.— An Act for the relief of Ann Brashears, of Mississippi. May 28, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That upon the return of a plat and certificate of Land patent to issue.survey, legally made, to the General Land Office, a patent shall be issued to Ann Brashears for four hundred and eighty arpents of land, in the county of Claiborne, and state of Mississippi, on the north side of the North Fork of Bayou Pierre, being the residue of a tract of eight hundred arpents surveyed for her, under the Spanish Government, by one William Thomas, then Deputy-Surveyor for William Vausdan, Surveyor, after deducting therefrom the quantity of three hundred and twenty arpents which has been confirmed to one Richard Sparks; which survey of eight hundred arpents included the place called the White Lick Ground, and a camp near the centre thereof, in which one Benjamin Proviso.Foy once resided: *Provided, however,* That such patent shall convey such title only as the United States now may have to it, and shall not include any land to which any other person has a legal title, and shall not be issued until satisfactory evidence be laid before the Commissioner of the General Land Office, that it does not include any land to which any other person sets up a legal title.
Approved, May 28, 1830.