Chapter XCI. *for the relief of Eaton Nance.* June 15, 1844
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Chap. XCI.— An Act *for the relief of Eaton Nance.* June 15, 1844. Whereas it satisfactorily appears that on the second day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, a patent issued from the General LandPreamble. Office of the United States, where the same was duly recorded, to Eaton Nance for a certain tract of land containing one hundred and sixty acres, being the south-east quarter of section thirty-four, of township ten north in range eight west in the tract appropriated by certain acts of Congress for military bounties, in the Territory of Arkansas—which said patent was duly countersigned by Josiah Meigs, Commissioner of the General Land Office, but by accident was not signed by the President of the United States.
Therefore, *Be it enacted, &c*., That said patent shall be deemed and held to be perfect and valid to all intents and purposes as though the same hadPatent to be held as perfect from the day of its dale. been signed by the President of the United States on the day of the date thereof; and that all questions or disputes that may arise in relation to said land or the title to the same, shall be decided and determined as though said patent had been perfect from the day of its date.
Approved, June 15, 1844. 4b2