Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 192.
(Report No. 182.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 8, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Harmanson, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, reported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the heirs and wi[dow of Fr]ancois 1 Gramillion.

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Be it enacted by the [Senate and] House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the claim of the widow and heirs of
Francois2 Gramillion, to a tract of seventeen arpens front,
by forty deep, in the parish of Avoyelles, Louisiana, be,
and the same is hereby, confirmed, according to a survey
executed in February, eighteen hundred and twenty-six,
by Kenneth McCrummen, deputy surveyor; and it shall
be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, to order an official survey to be returned for the
said claim, conforming as near as may be, to a survey made
in February, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, by Kenneth

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20 McCrummen, accompanying the petition for confirmation;
and upon the return to the General Land Office of an
official survey, properly executed and certified, a patent
shall issue: Provided, That the confirmation and patent
shall only operate as a relinquishment of title on the part
of the United States, and shall in no way prejudice any
adverse rights which may exist to any part of the premises
before such official survey shall be made.

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H R N^o 192
For the relief of the heirs of Francois Grammillion

1Handwritten “c” written over a printed inverted “5”.

2Handwritten “c” written over a printed inverted “5”.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	Be it enacted by the [Senate and] House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of the widow and heirs of Francois2 Gramillion, to a tract of seventeen arpens front, by forty deep, in the parish of Avoyelles, Louisiana, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, according to a survey executed in February, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, by Kenneth McCrummen, deputy surveyor; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to order an official survey to be returned for the said claim, conforming as near as may be, to a survey made in February, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, by Kenneth
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	McCrummen, accompanying the petition for confirmation; and upon the return to the General Land Office of an official survey, properly executed and certified, a patent shall issue: Provided, That the confirmation and patent shall only operate as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall in no way prejudice any adverse rights which may exist to any part of the premises before such official survey shall be made.