Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the register of the land office at Kaskaskia be required to issue certificates of confirmation on the several claims to lands confirmed to the said Jean F. Perry, Josiah Bleakley, Nicholas Jarrot, and Robert Morrison, by the governors of the north-western or Indiana Territories, upon those claims where such certificates have not heretofore issued, which certificates shall be issued to the heirs of the said persons, and shall not exceed in the whole four thousand six hundred acres of land.

Sec. 2. And be it furter enacted, That such certificates may be located in legal subdivisions upon any land subject to private entry in any land office in Illinois, established for the sale of the public lands agreeably to the provisions of the act entitled "An Act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois Territory, and providing for their location," approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and patents shall be issued therefor agreeably to said act.

Approved, December 21, 1848.