Chapter CXLVI. for the relief of Hannah McKim
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Chap. CXLVI.— An Act for the relief of Hannah McKim. June 25, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c., * That Hannah McKim be confirmed in her claim to a tract of six hundred and forty acres of land, for which she filedLand claim confirmed. her claim with the Register and Receiver of the Land Office south of Red river, pursuant to the acts of Congress of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in relation to lands situated between the Rio Honde and Sabine rivers, in the state of Louisiana, on the main fork of the Bayou Provincial; and which claim was, by the said Register and Receiver, in their report of the first of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, made to the Secretary of the Treasury, ranked in the fourth class, number one hundred and sixteen; and that the said claim be regarded and considered as if the same had been ranked by the said Register and Receiver, in their said report, in the third class; and that the said Hannah McKim be entitled to all the privileges, advantages, and benefits to which she would have been entitled, or which would have accrued to her, if her said claim had been ranked in the third class of the said report: *Provided,*Proviso.
That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to affect or impair the claim, title, or interest of any other person to the same land, or any part thereof, derived either from the United States or otherwise. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passage thereof. Approved, June 25, 1832.