Chapter LXXVI. confirming to Joshua Kennedy, his claim to a tract of land in the city of Mobile
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Chap. LXXVI.— An Act confirming to Joshua Kennedy, his claim to a tract of land in the city of Mobile. May 5, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c., * That Joshua Kennedy, of the city and county of Mobile, in the state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, confirmed in hisLand claim confirmed. claim to a tract of land, containing twenty and twenty-eight hundredths arpens, situate in the south part of the city of Mobile, which said claim is designated as “claim number ten, in abstract A, number two” of the report made to the Secretary of the Treasury on the twenty-ninth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, by the Commissioners appointed under the act of Congress of third March, oneAct of March 3, 1827, ch. 78. thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, entitled “An act supplement- 486 TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 78, 81, 82. 1832. ary to the several acts providing for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Alabama.” Sec. 2. Patent to be issued. *And be it further enacted, *That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, on a return of the survey of the above-mentioned tract of land, by the surveyor of the lands of the United States in the state of Alabama, to issue a patent for the same, to the said Joshua Kennedy, or his legal representatives, or to any person legally claiming under him or them: *Provided, however,*Proviso.
That the confirmation of this claim, and the patent provided to be issued, shall not be held to interfere with any part of said tract which may have been disposed of by the United States previous to the passage of this act; and this act shall be held to be no more than a relinquishment of whatever title the United States may now have to such tract of land. Approved, May 5, 1832.