THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 427.
(Report No. 506.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
April 26, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Tompkins, from the Committee on Private Land Claims,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
Amendatory of an act, approved on the twenty-sixth day of
May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and re-enacted
on the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and
forty-four, entitled “An act enabling claimants to lands
within the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory
of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of
their claims.”
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled
, That the third proviso in the twelfth section
of an act, approved the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen
hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act, enabling
claimants of lands within the limits of the State of
Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, to institute pro

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ceeedings to try the validity of their claims,” which pro-
vides “that none of the provisions of this act, shall be
applied to a claim of the legal representatives or
assignees of Jacques Clamorgan, deceased, lying be-
tween the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, and covering
parts of the counties of St. Charles and Lincoln, in the
State of Missouri,” be repealed; and that it shall, and
may be lawful, for the legal representatives of Jacques
Clamorgan, to bring their claim in the foregoing “pro-
viso” excluded for adjudication before the court, and
under all the terms and provisions made and provided in
the said act, approved the twenty-sixth day of May,
eighteen hundred and twenty-four, and re-enacted the
seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

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