Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Jose Argote Villalobos, Marie Rose, Francois Felix, Marquis de Fougeres, or their heirs or legal representatives, or such thereof as may be deemed to be proper parties therefor, may, within one year from the passage of this act, reinstate, or have reinstated on the docket of the Supreme Court of the United States, an appeal to the said Supreme Court from a certain decree of the Superior Court of the district of East Florida, in the late Territory of Florida, rendered on the tenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, in favor of the United States, rejecting a certain claim or grant for certain lands in said State, and said Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction of said appeal, and proceed to hear and determine such appeal, the same as if the appeal heretofore taken and dismissed by said Supreme Court or Court of Error in the proceedings respecting said appeal by the officers of said Superior Court had not been irregular, and as if the time limited by law had not elapsed; it appearing that some of said parties have died, some residents of France, and some minors, and that delay in taking said appeal in due time has been occasioned thereby.

Approved, July 20, 1848.