Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of the widow and heirs of Francois 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 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.

Approved, August 11, 1848.