Chapter XCVI. for the relief of Rebecca Blodget
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Chap. XCVI.— An Act for the relief of Rebecca Blodget. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Attorney-General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain whether Mrs.Attorney-General to ascertain whether she hath right of dower in certain lots, &c. Rebecca Blodget hath right of dower in certain lots formerly owned by her husband, Samuel Blodget, but now held by the United States, to wit: in lots number one, four, and fourteen, in the square number four hundred and thirty, in the city of Washington; and if she hath such right of dower, to ascertain, in the manner he may think most advisable, what is the value of such her right of dower in the said lots, and the improvements thereon erected, at the time her right accrued, and that he report the same to Congress at its next session.
Approved, May 20, 1826.