Chapter XXVIII. *to confirm the title to a certain trad of land in the county if Mobile, in the state of Alabama.*May 27, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the claim of William E
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Chap. XXVIII.— An Act *to confirm the title to a certain trad of land in the county if Mobile, in the state of Alabama.*May 27, 1840. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the claim of William E. Kennedy, filed Land claim confirmed.before William Crawford, commissioner, for the confirmation of the title to a piece of land claimed under Benjamin Dubroca, for eight hundred arpens, by virtue of a Spanish permit, dated the second of February, one thousand eight hundred and three, lying in the county of Mobile, and state of Alabama, and which claim is numbered one hundred and three, in the report numbered six, of said William Crawford, commissioner, and which claim was placed by said commissioner in the list of claims which “ought not to be confirmed,” be recognized as a valid May 27, 1840.claim, and that the same be confirmed, and stand in the same situation precisely as if the said claim had not been reported upon unfavorably, but, on the contrary, had been reported as a claim which ought to be confirmed, and as if said claim had been placed by said commissioner on the list of those which ought to be confirmed, whereby the said claim would have stood confirmed by the act of Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100.Congress of the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans;” and the said title is hereby confirmed accordingly for said land, for which a patent shall issue according to such survey thereof, as shall be approved by the Surveyor-General Proviso.of the United Stales for the state of Alabama: *Provided, however*, That this act shall be so construed as to operate as a relinquishment of the title of the United States only.
Approved, May 27, 1840.