Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal heirs of John Snyder, deceased, a private of Captain Sadlier's company of the sixth regiment of infantry, who enlisted the twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and twelve, for five years, and died whilst in service, on the twenty-seventh of January, eighteen hundred and thirteen, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter at the proper land office in any of the States and Territories in which the same may lie, one hundred and sixty acres of land.

Approved, June 26, 1848.