Chapter CXXV. for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi
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Chap. CXXV.— An Act for the relief of Woodson Wren, of Mississippi. March 3, 1831. *Be it enacted, &c., * That Woodson Wren, of the state of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, confirmed to a tract of land containing eight hundredClaim to land confirmed. arpens, situated on the east side of the bay of Biloxi, in the county of Jackson, and state of Mississippi, between Bellfontaine and the old French fort, claimed by virtue of a purchase from Littleberry Robert- 470 TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 125. 1831. son, and reported for confirmation by the Register and Receiver of the land office at Jackson Court-house, Mississippi, dated July the twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. Sec. 2. Patent to be issued. *And be it further enacted, *That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon being presented with plats and certificates of survey of the said tract of land, legally executed by a proper officer, shall issue a patent for the same; which patent shall operate only as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all right and title to said land.
Sec. 3. In case said tract shall have been sold, &c., allowed to enter another tract. *And be it further enacted, *That, if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the claim herein above alluded to, or any part thereof, shall have been sold, patented, or confirmed, to any person, previous to the passage of this act, then and in that case, the said Woodson Wren shall be allowed to enter the same number of acres of the claim thus sold, patented, or confirmed, to any other person, or any of the unappropriated lands in the state of Mississippi that may be subject to private entry, conforming, in such entry, to the divisions and subdivisions established by law.
Approved, March 3, 1831. 22 22 1 1831 1832 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at thefirst session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fifth day of December,* 1831, *and ended on the fourteenth day of July,* 1832. Andrew Jackson, President; John C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE I.