Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 710.
(Report No. 15.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 3, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Darling, from the Committee on Private Land Claims,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
To satisfy the claim of the legal representatives of Joseph
Reynes of Louisiana.

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11 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That, in satisfaction of the claim of Joseph
Reynes, for forty thousand arpens of land, which is en-
tered as number forty-five in register C of Cosby, former
commissioner for the adjudication of titles, in the district
west of Pearl river, Louisiana, and which claim has been
held valid by a decree of the United States district court
for the district of Louisiana, under the act of Congress
approved seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-
four, the legal representatives of the said Joseph Reynes

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16 be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate, in legal di-
visions or sub-divisions, the area of the aforesaid claim on
any public lands in Louisiana subject to entry at private
sale, and, upon the location being duly made and returned
to the General Land Office, a patent shall issue.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in satisfaction of the claim of Joseph Reynes, for forty thousand arpens of land, which is en- tered as number forty-five in register C of Cosby, former commissioner for the adjudication of titles, in the district west of Pearl river, Louisiana, and which claim has been held valid by a decree of the United States district court for the district of Louisiana, under the act of Congress approved seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty- four, the legal representatives of the said Joseph Reynes
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12 13 14 15 16	be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate, in legal di- visions or sub-divisions, the area of the aforesaid claim on any public lands in Louisiana subject to entry at private sale, and, upon the location being duly made and returned to the General Land Office, a patent shall issue.