Chapter XXIX. for the relief of Josiah Barker
253 words·~1 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-6/chapter-xxix-2366816·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Chap. XXIX.— An Act for the relief of Josiah Barker.Feb. 9, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That Josiah Barker be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his title to a tract of land of one thousand and one superficial Land title confirmed. arpens and three hundred toises, having a front of thirteen arpens and six toises, on the Mississippi, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana, it being the same land granted by separate patents to Zachariah Norton and John Fitz Patrick, dated February fourteenth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six, and signed by Estevan Miro, Governor General of Louisiana.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said Josiah Barker be Same as to double concession of part of the above tract. confirmed in his title to a tract of land, not exceeding the quantity of twelve hundred and eighty acres, by virtue of an order of survey for a double concession, granted by the Baron de Carondelet, on the twentieth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, in favor of widow Hindson, to be located adjacent to and back of the lower tract of eleven arpens front, confirmed in the first section of this act, and not to extend more than forty arpens in the rear of the said front tract: *Provided,* That this confirmation shall only amount to a relinquishment Proviso. of title on the part of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of third persons.
Approved, February 9, 1833.