Private Law 1–C

That the Commissioner of the General Land

1844, ch. 152-A certificate authorizing him to enter certain land, to issue.

Office shall issue to Hyacinth Lassel (named in the schedule of grants annexed to the treaty made with the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, on the seventeenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, near the mouth of the Mississinniwa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana) a certificate under the seal of said land office, authorizing him, the said Hyacinth Lassel, to locate five hundred and sixty acres of land in one tract, at any land office in the state of Indiana; he, the said Lassel, paying the minimum price fixed for such lands, for eighteen acres and forty-six hundredths of an acre, part and parcel of said tract of five hundred and sixty acres.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That such certificate of the Commissioner of the General Land Office aforesaid, shall be receivable, from the said Hyacinth Lassel, at any land office in said state of Indiana, at any time prior to the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, or from the heirs or assigns of the said Hyacinth Lassel, in payment, according to the provisions of the

Proviso.

first section of this act: Provided, however, That the entry and location hereby authorized, shall not be made on any lands within the limits of the grant made to the state of Indiana for the Wabash and Erie Canal; nor on the alternate sections reserved to the United States in said grant; nor on any lands selected by the state of Indiana for the purposes of said Canal.