Chapter CXVI. for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana
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Chap. CXVI.— An Act for the relief of Garrigues Flaujac, of Louisiana. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That Garrigues Flaujac, of the county of Opelousas, in the state of Louisiana, or his legal representatives, are herebyAuthorized to locate a certain tract of land in Louisiana. authorized and empowered to locate a certain tract of land, derived from an order of survey in favor of Louis Berten D’Antilly, for three thousand two hundred superficial arpens of land, being forty arpens in front, by forty arpens in depth, on both sides of the Bayou Gross Tate, in Louisiana, and which said tract of land was confirmed by an act of Congress, dated the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight1823, ch. 15. hundred and twenty-three, in conformity with the report of the register and receiver of the eastern land district of Louisiana; the said tract of land, thus confirmed, having been surveyed and sold by the United States; which location shall be made upon any of the unappropriated public lands in the south-western district of Louisiana, south of Red river: *Provided,* That the said location shall, as far as possible, be madeProviso. in one body, and conform, as near as practicable, to the lines of the public surveys: *And provided also,* That the said Garrigues Flaujac,Proviso. or his legal representatives, before such location, shall release to the United States, in such manner as the commissioner of the general land office shall direct, all his right, title, claim, and interest, in the land heretofore confirmed to him, on the said Bayou Gross Tate; and the said release and location shall be made in one year from and after the passage of this act.
Approved, May 20, 1826.