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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · March 2, 1847 · Chapter XLVI

Chapter XLVI. for the Relief of the Heirs of Louis de la Houssaye, deceased

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Chap. XLVI.— An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Louis de la Houssaye, deceased. March 2, 1847. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Heirs, &c. of Louis de la Houssaye authorized to locate the tract of land confirmed to them upon any vacant land.1827, ch. 54. That the heirs and legal representatives of Louis de la Houssaye, deceased, be authorized and permitted to locate the tract of land confirmed to them by an act entitled “An Act for the Relief of the Heirs and legal Representatives of Louis de la Houssaye,” approved second March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, upon any vacant public land in the Opelousas land district, in Louisiana: *Provided*, That said lands shallProviso. not be located in less quantities than a quarter of a section.
Approved, March 2, 1847.
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