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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · March 2, 1849 · Chapter XC

Chapter XC. for the Benefit of Peter M

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Chap. XC.— An Act for the Benefit of Peter M. Grant. March 2, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled*, Peter M. Grant authorized to return to the Commissioner of the General Land Office a land warrant for 160 acres of land, and to receive another warrant in lieu thereof. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office, on Peter M. Grant’s returning to that office land warrant No. thirty thousand and ninety-one, for one hundred and sixty acres of land, and furnishing satisfactory evidence that Jacob Phillips left no kin entitled by law to the said land warrant, in consideration of the services of the said Phillips, deceased, shall issue another land warrant to said Peter M.
Grant, executor and devisee of said Jacob Phillips, deceased, for one hundred and sixty acres in lieu of said warrant so to be returned, and shall be *cacelled*. Approved, March 2, 1849.
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