Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 256.
(Report No. 261.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
February 29, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state
of the Union.
Mr. Collamer, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported
the following bill:
A BILL
To legalize the transfer of bounty land warrant, number seven
thousand nine hundred and forty-three.

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12 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That, in the case of the military land warrant, number
seven thousand nine hundred and forty-three, issued from
the War Department on the thirteenth December, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, in favor of Carolina Justina Co-
penrath, widow, et als., heirs-at-law of Frederick Copen-
rath, for one hundred and sixty acres, it shall, and may, be
lawful for F. L. Brauns, consul of Prussia, in Baltimore, to
transfer, for the benefit of the said warrantees, their interest
in the said warrant, under the original power of attorney
on file in the Pension Office, which was executed on the

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24 fifth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, at Muenster,
in the kingdom of Prussia, by Joseph Copenrath, as guar-
dian and representative of the minor children of the late
Frederick Copenrath, and approved by the orphans’ court
at that place, on the sixth June, eighteen hundred and
forty-seven, notwithstanding the said power bears date
prior to the said warrant: Provided, however, That the
Prussian minister to the United States shall certify on the
said warrant that the power aforesaid contains, according
to the laws of Prussia, sufficient authority to the said con-
sul to transfer the claim of the parties under the warrant
aforesaid.

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, in the case of the military land warrant, number seven thousand nine hundred and forty-three, issued from the War Department on the thirteenth December, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, in favor of Carolina Justina Co- penrath, widow, et als., heirs-at-law of Frederick Copen- rath, for one hundred and sixty acres, it shall, and may, be lawful for F. L. Brauns, consul of Prussia, in Baltimore, to transfer, for the benefit of the said warrantees, their interest in the said warrant, under the original power of attorney on file in the Pension Office, which was executed on the
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24	fifth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, at Muenster, in the kingdom of Prussia, by Joseph Copenrath, as guar- dian and representative of the minor children of the late Frederick Copenrath, and approved by the orphans’ court at that place, on the sixth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, notwithstanding the said power bears date prior to the said warrant: Provided, however, That the Prussian minister to the United States shall certify on the said warrant that the power aforesaid contains, according to the laws of Prussia, sufficient authority to the said con- sul to transfer the claim of the parties under the warrant aforesaid.