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 within 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 south-western district of Louisiana, to wit: that tract occupied by the said Charles Cappel, containing two hundred superficial arpents, five arpents front by forty arpents deep, not heretofore confirmed to any other claimant.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury cause the said tract of two hundred superficial arpents to be surveyed, and a patent to issue to said Cappel, his heirs and assigns, for the same.

Approved, August 5, 1848.