Volume 10 · 815
Private Law 33–CCXI
for the Relief of John McVea and John F, McKneely, of Louisiana.
Approved August 3, 1854
Statutory text
An Act
for the Relief of John McVea and John F, McKneely, of Louisiana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That upon the return to the THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 212, 213, 214. 1854. land-office at Greensburg, Louisiana, of plats of surveys, duly approved
John McVea and John F. McKneely, to enter certain land which they have held in possession upon certain conditions.
by the surveyor-general, of township three south, of range one west, and township three south, of range one east, it shall and may be lawful for John McVea and John F. McKneely to enter, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the one thousand acre tract or parcel of land which they have long held in possession and cultivation, and which is represented as covering parts of sections one, two, eleven, and twelve, in township three south, of range one west, and parts of sections six, seven, thirteen, and eighteen, of township three south, of range one east, in the Greensburg Land District, Louisiana: Provided, That the entry shall be
Proviso.
made of the quantity aforesaid, according to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and shall embrace the quantity aforesaid and the land actually cultivated and enclosed by them, as near as may be: And provided, further,
Further proviso.
That the entry or entries made under the provisions of this act, shall not be to the prejudice of any valid adverse rights, if any such exist, to any part of the land aforesaid.
Approved, .