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2648855United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3 — Public Acts of the Seventeenth Congress, 2nd Session, Chapter 15United States Congress


Feb. 28, 1823.

Chap. XV.An Act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana.[1]

Claims for certain lands in Louisiana confirmed.
Act of March 2, 1805, ch. 26.
Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 36.
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 87.
Claims of lands north of Red river, confirmed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims for lands within the eastern district of the state of Louisiana, described by the register of the land office of the said district, in his report to the Secretary of the Treasury, bearing date the sixth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, against any claim on the part of the United States.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the claims for lands within the district north of Red river, in the state of Louisiana, described by the register of the land office of the said district, in his report to the Secretary of the Treasury, bearing date the first January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and included in the first, second, and third, classes of claims, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed against any claim on the part of the United States with the exception of the claims numbered forty and fifty-one in the first class, and of the claims numbered forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, and forty-eight, in the said first class, (which are included in the claim of Baron Bastrop.)

Approved, February 28, 1823.