Volume 6
Private Law 1–LXXXIII
for the relief of Pierre Molaison, the widow of Pierre Richoux, Alexander Comeau, Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, and François Marlin, of the state of Louisiana.
Approved July 20, 1840
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Pierre Molaison, the widow of Pierre Richoux, Alexander Comeau, Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, and François Marlin, of the state of Louisiana.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the claim of Pierre Molaison to a
Land claim of P. .Molaison confirmed.
tract of land ol one arpen and a half front, more or less, with forty arpens in depth, situate on the left bank of the bayou Lafourche, about three miles below the town of Thibodauxville, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the claim of the widow, Pierre Richoux, to a tract of land of one arpen and a half front, more or less, with forty arpens in depth, situate on the left bank of the bayou Lafourche, about three miles below the town of Thibodauxville, and bounded on the lower side by the land of Pierre Molaison, described in the first section of this act, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.
Sec. 3.
And be it further enacted, That the claim of Alexander Comeau, to a tract of land of four arpens front, with forty arpens in depth, situate on the left bank of the bayou Lafourche, about four leagues and a half from the Mississippi, and designated as fractional section number fifty-eight, in township thirteen, range fourteen east, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed.
Sec. 4.
And be it further enacted, That the claim of Alice L. Foley, widow of John Foley, to a tract of land in the parish of Assumption, on the left bank of the canal leading to Lake Verrit, and containing ten arpens front by forty arpens in depth, designated as sections numbers one hundred and forty and one hundred and eighty, of townships numbers fourteen and fourteen, in range numbers thirteen and fourteen east, be, and the same is hereby confirmed.
Sec. 5.
And be it further enacted, That the claim of François Martin to a tract of land in the parish of Assumption, on the right bank of the canal, to Lake Verrit, containing one hundred and forty and sixty-three
Proviso.
hundredths acres, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed: Provided, That none of the confirmations contained in this act shall amount to any thing more than a relinquishment of claim on the part of the United States.
Approved, .