Chapter LXXII. to grant a Preemption Right to the Heirs or legal Representatives of John Smith T
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Chap. LXXII.— An Act to grant a Preemption Right to the Heirs or legal Representatives of John Smith T. March 3, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Authorized to enter at the minimum price so much of the claim No. 4 of Jacques St Vrain as has been registered and located, &c. That the heirs or legal representatives of John Smith T., the assignee of Jacques St. Vrain, to claim number four, in the report of the commissioners appointed under the act of ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for the adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, and the act supplementary thereto, of the second of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same are hereby, authorized to enter, at the minimum price of the public lands, so much of said claim as has1832, ch. 180. been duly registered, located, and laid down on the plats of the public surveys1833, ch. 84. for reservation, under the authority of the laws of the United States: *Provided, however*, That said entries shall not exceed,Proviso. in the aggregate, five thousand six hundred acres; and that the said entries shall be made to conform to the surveys and legal subdivisions of the lands of the United States, and to include, as nearly as may be the reservations as laid down on the plats aforesaid: *And provided, further*,To be in full satisfaction of the grant of 10,000 arpens made to said St.
Vrain. That the acceptance of the permission granted by the provision of this act shall be taken in full satisfaction of the grant of ten thousand arpens made to the said Jacques St. Vrain by the Baron de Carendolet, on the tenth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-six: *And provided*, that if any private rights existPrivate rights secured. to any part of said location, adverse to that of the claimants herein, the same shall be reserved and saved to said adverse claimants.
Approved, March 3, 1847.