Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—SECOND SESSION.
H. R. 719.
(Report No. 28.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
January 16, 1849.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. Gayle, from the Committee on Private Land Claims, re-
ported the following bill:
A BILL
For the relief of the heirs of Semoice, a friendly Creek Indian.

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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 the children and heirs of Semoice, de-
ceased, a Creek Indian, to wit: Hetty Deas, Vicy Toxy,
and Elizabeth Semoice, be, and they are hereby, vested
with a title in fee simple to fractional section twenty-three,
township four, range two east, containing six hundred and
two acres and fifty-three hundredths of an acre, being the
same land selected and entered by the said Semoice, un-
der and by virtue of an act approved second July, eighteen
hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act for the relief of

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15 Samuel Smith, Lynn Macghee, and Semoice, friendly Creek
Indians: Provided, That this act shall not be construed
to defeat or prejudice the legal claim, if any there be, of
other persons to the said tract of land.

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 the children and heirs of Semoice, de- ceased, a Creek Indian, to wit: Hetty Deas, Vicy Toxy, and Elizabeth Semoice, be, and they are hereby, vested with a title in fee simple to fractional section twenty-three, township four, range two east, containing six hundred and two acres and fifty-three hundredths of an acre, being the same land selected and entered by the said Semoice, un- der and by virtue of an act approved second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act for the relief of
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12 13 14 15	Samuel Smith, Lynn Macghee, and Semoice, friendly Creek Indians: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to defeat or prejudice the legal claim, if any there be, of other persons to the said tract of land.