Chapter XCI. *to provide, for the Confirmation of certain Settlement Claims in the Greensburg Land District, Louisiana.* Aug. 6, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *The 2d proviso oPactonm, ch. 128. $3, not to apply to the report
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Chap. XCI.— An Act *to provide, for the Confirmation of certain Settlement Claims in the Greensburg Land District, Louisiana.* Aug. 6, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *The 2d proviso oPactonm, ch. 128. $3, not to apply to the reports of Cosby and Skipwith on certain settlement claims, which are hereby confirmed.That the second proviso of the third section of the act of eighth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled “An Act supplementary to the several Acts for adjusting the Claims to Land and establishing Land Offices in the Districts east of the Island of New Orleans,” shall not apply to the reports dated eighteenth November, eighteen hundred and twenty, and twenty-fourth July, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, of Cosby and Skipwith, on settlement claims in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the Mississippi River and west of Pearl River; but such claims which, according to the said reports, were inhabited or cultivated, or where the date of settlement was before the fifteenth April, eighteen hundred and thirteen, are hereby confirmed under the other restrictions of said third section; but this confirmation shall in no manner affect prior rights, and shall only amount to a relinquishment on the part of the United States.
Approved, August 6, 1846.