A bill to be entitled An act for the relief of Charles Cappel

Sec. 1^st Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ^of America^ in congress assembled, that Charles Cappel of the parish of Avoyelles State of Louisiana his Heirs and assigns be forever confirmed in the title[,] use and possession of all that certain tract [,] lot and parcel of land situate within the said Parish of Avoyelles, at Marksville in the prairie and embraced within the grant of the Spanish government to Noel Soileau, lying with Section numbered Twenty-Seven of Township Two North of Range Four East, as described upon the plat of the public Survey of the lands of the Southwestern district of Louisiana, towit: that Tract occupied by the Said Charles Cappel containing Two Hundred Superficial arpents, five arpents front deep by forty arpents deep, not heretofore confirmed to any other claimant

Section 2nd Be it further enacted that the Secretary of the Treasury cause the said tract of 200 superficial arpents to be surveyed and a patent to issue to said Cappel his Heirs assigns for the same.