Chapter XLVI. for the relief of Bernard Marigny, of the state of Louisiana
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Chap. XLVI.— An Act for the relief of Bernard Marigny, of the state of Louisiana. March 15, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c., * That Bernard Marigny, as assignee of Antonio Land claim of 4020 arpents confirmed.Bonnabel, be, and is hereby, confirmed in his claim to a tract of land of four thousand and twenty superficial arpents, situate in the state of Louisiana, and parish of St. Tammany, bounded on the south-west by Lake Pontchartrain, and on the north-west by lands formerly owned by the heirs of Lewis Davis; the tract confirmed by this section being the same which was surveyed for Antonio Bonnabel, by Carlos Trudeau, on the fifteenth January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and granted to said Bonnabel on the twenty-fifth January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, by Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Governor General of the provinces of Louisiana and West Florida; and for which a claim was filed in the name of said Bonnabel, in the Land Office at St.
Helena Court-house, under the act of Congress of twenty-fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. Sec. 2. Claim of 774 arpents, also confirmed. *And be it further enacted, *That Bernard Marigny be, and is hereby, confirmed in his claim to a tract of land of seven hundred and seventy-four superficial arpents, situate in the state of Louisiana and TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess I . Ch . 47, 48, 49. 1832. 481 parish of St. Tammany, bounded on the south-west by Lake Pontchartrain, on the northern side by Castin Bayou, and on the southern side by the lands confirmed in the first section of this act; the said tract of seven hundred and seventy-four arpents being the same which was granted on the twentieth January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, by Peter Chester, British Governor at Pensacola, to Lewis Davis, whose title to the same was afterwards, to wit, on the eleventh June, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, confirmed by decree of Estevan Miro, Spanish Governor of the provinces of Florida and Louisiana, and for which a claim was filed in the name of the heirs of Lewis Davis, in the Land Office at St.
Helena court-house, under the act of Congress of the twenty-fifth April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve: *Provided,* That the said two tracts of land shall be consideredProviso. as confirmed, in the same manner, and under the same regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as if the same had been recommended for confirmation in the reports of the commissioner for the district west of Pearl river, and east of the island of New Orleans, which were confirmed by the act of Congress, approved on the third day of March, oneAct of March 3, 1819, ch. 100. thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the districts east of the island of New Orleans: *Provided, also,* That the claim of AntonioProviso.
Bonnabel, embraced in the said commissioner’s reports, as of four hundred arpents, shall be considered as comprised in, and forming part of the tract of four thousand and twenty arpents, confirmed in the first section of this act. Approved, March 15, 1832.