Aug. 14, 1848.
Chap. CLXXXV. — An Act for the Relief of William Triplett.
Right to a preemption of a tract of land in Missouri, confirmed to William Triplett.
Upon payment being made for said land, a patent to issue.
Proviso.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the right of William Triplett, of St. Louis county, Missouri, to a preëmption
of the south-east quarter of section thirty-six, in township forty-five, of range
four east, as specified in the certificate of the receiver of the land office at St.
Louis, numbered eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-one, held under the act of
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, being the land on which he, the said Triplett,
has resided for more than twenty-five years last past, be, and the same is hereby
confirmed and established; and that upon payment being made, or having been made for said land, by said Triplett,
a patent shall be issued to him: Provided, That all or any previous right acquired, and grants or sales of said
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land by the United States, shall be, and the same are hereby, expressly saved and
reserved from the operation of this act.
Approved, August 14, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 738-39