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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · Jan. 10, 1849 · Chapter XVI

Chapter XVI. for the Relief of Anthony Bessee

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Chap. XVI.— An Act for the Relief of Anthony Bessee. Jan. 10, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Surveyor-general of Louisiana to locate for Anthony Bessee 610 acres of public land. That the surveyor-general of the State of Louisiana is hereby authorized and directed to locate for Anthony Bessee, in full satisfaction of his six hundred and forty acre confirmed settlement claim, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the like area, according to the lines of the public surveys, upon any unappropriated land belonging to the United States in the Greensburgh land district, Louisiana, and, upon the return of a certificate of such location to the General Land Office, a patent shallPatent to issue. issue to the said Bessee.
Approved, January 10, 1849.
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