Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mrs. Amelia Couvillion, wife of Zenen St. Romain, be, and she is hereby, authorized to enter as a preëmption, and at the minimum price of public lands, the area, in legal subdivisions of one quarter section, so as to embrace her present actual settlement and "a certain improvement on a piece of public land, situated in the parish of Avoyelles, on Bayou Des Glaises," in the State of Louisiana, it appearing from an official certificate, dated the sixteenth of October, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, of the recorder of said parish, that the said Mrs. Amelia Couvillion became the purchaser at sheriff's sale of all the right, title, and interest of her said husband in the aforesaid improvement: Provided, however, That the right hereby allowed be subject to any valid adverse claim, if such exist, to any part of the land.

Approved, March 3, 1849.