Chapter CXXX. *for the relief of Paul Poissot.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the register of the land office at Natchitoches, in the state of Louisiana, grant to Paul Poissot a certificate for aA certificate for land to be granted. quarter section of land, according to the proper and legal subdivision
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Chap. CXXX.— An Act *for the relief of Paul Poissot.*March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the register of the land office at Natchitoches, in the state of Louisiana, grant to Paul Poissot a certificate for aA certificate for land to be granted. quarter section of land, according to the proper and legal subdivisions, to embrace the settlement made by François Masseppe, on the sixteenth section, in the parish of Natchitoches, situated on the south-west bank of Red river, about twenty-three miles above the town of Natchitoches, and bounded above by the lands occupied by Jean Eloi Rachal, and below by the lands occupied by Baptist Landreaux, upon his paying to the register of the land office at Natchitoches the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and producing the certificate therefor from the receiver of public moneys at Opelousas. 768 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 131, 132, 133, 134. 1839. Sec. 2. *And be it. further enacted*, That the Secretary of the TreasuryOther land to be selected for use of schools. cause to be selected one quarter section of land, of one hundred and sixty acres, in lieu of the quarter section in the first section of this act named, out of any of the public lands, to be located in the land district in which the first named quarter section is situated, for the use of Proviso.schools in said township: *Provided*, The school commissioners for the parish in which said land is situated, and a majority of the free white male inhabitants of the township, over twenty-one years of age, shall consent to such change.
Approved, March 3, 1839.