Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Frederic Durrive be, and he is hereby, confirmed in his purchase of lot number sixteen, in township number seventeen, of range number fifteen east, lying west of the Mississippi River, entered and paid for by him at the land office at New Orleans, containing one hundred and sixty-five acres and eleven-hundredths of an acre, and that a patent be issued to him therefor: Provided, however, That said Durrive shall first procure and file with the register of the district the assent in writing of the commissioners of schools, and a majority of the voters, in the township in which said land is situated, to such confirmation.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if such patent shall be issued to said Durrive, in pursuance of the section aforesaid, then the register of the land office and receiver of public money in said district, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall select and reserve for the use of schools in said township other lands in the same or adjoining township, of the same extent and quality with those described in the first section of this act.

Approved, August 14, 1848.