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FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 54, 55. 1871. 415 For survey, map, and estimate for plan for bringing water from Water. Round pond, two thousand five hundred dollars. For heating apparatus, book cases for archives, ofnce furniture, up- Heating appsholstery, blinds, gas-pipes and fixtures in Hre·proof building for public “‘t“·&°· office and archives, five thousand dollars. Approved, February 18, 1871. CHAP. LV.—An’ Act ézxthe Relief of certain Purchasers of Lands from the legal Feb- 18• 1E7L wasentatwes of Bartholomew Cousin. _`_i"` Wumnnns the claim of Bartholomew Cousin, or his legal represents.- Preamble. tives, is embraced in Recorder Bates’[s] report of February second, eighteen hundred and sixteen, and confirmed to the extent of a league square, and survey numbered two thousand one hundred and ninety-six was made for the same in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen; and whereas a further confirmation was made of eight hundred and ninety- nine arpens, or six hundred and sixty-four and seventy··eight hundredths 1832 ch_180_ acres, in the favorable report, numbered sixty-one, of the board of com- Vol. iv. sca. missioners, under the acts of Congress of the years eighteen hundred and {g32f ·g] thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, confirmed by the act of ;g3`5,éhi?'g61,` July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: Therefore, V0!- V- P- 126- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Oovfgress assembled, That it shall and may be law- An area may ful for the county surveyor of the county of Cape Girardeau, or whom- }.’°lfi€";f;.;*‘;€l in soever may be designated by the commissioner of the general land Oithzacimjggn otiice, to select an area, in compact form, as near as may be to the B¤¢¢l3<>1<>¤ww quantity of acres of the confirmation by act of July fourth, eighteen Cm"'"' hundred and thirty-six, according to legal subdivisions, and in full satisfaction of said claim: beginning ata corner where a line of the survey Boundaries. numbered two thousand one hundred and ninety-six intersects the north line of section twelve, township thirty-one north, range eleven east, near the northeast corner of said section twelve; thence with said line of said survey two thousand one hundred and ninety-six to a corner of said survey two thousand one hundred and ninety-six, in section twenty- three of said township and range; thence westwardly on a line a sufficient distance that a line projected northwardly parallel with the western boundary line of survey numbered two thousand one hundred and ninety-six, and running eastwardly to the place of beginning, will include the said quantity of six hundred and sixty-four and seventy-eight hundredths acres; and thereafter, and within one year from the passage _ Parties claimof this act, the parties claiming in right of said Cousin any tract outside :)’;_EC;';S§g°a **5*1* of the limits of said survey numbered two thousand one hundred and tmctoumidgigw ninety-six, and the selection authorized by this act to make good the may, upon, &c· second confirmation aforesaid, be, and are hereby, authorized, on satis- £’;*{'g;‘;'::Q;;"d factory proof to the register and receiver of the land district in which said tracts are situated, of such right, to make payment therefor at the rate·of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, or by pre·emption or _ claim of homestead, according to the laws of the United States in such cases made and provided.. _ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted That any tract or parcel of land, _ P¤ngps&midafter the survey and adjustment of said confirmation, which is not em- §:§,lf£,dg nggim braced therein but withheld from sale by the government of the United chidedin the States by reason of the supposed interference and non-survey of said fg Second confirmation, thereafter and in one year from the adjustment of or glpjm thém 35 said survey any party or person residing upon and cultivating such tract homesteadsor parcel of land withheld from sale as aforesaid at and before the passage of this act, upon making satisfactory proof to the register and receiver of the land district in which such tracts or parcels are situate of actual settlement according to the provisions of this section, be, and are