Volume 6
Private Law 16–CCCXXVII
for the relief of Josette Beaubien and her children.
Approved July 2, 1836
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Josette Beaubien and her children.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Josette Beaubien be, and she hereby is,
Allowed to relinquish certain lands, and enter another tract.
permitted, under such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Treasury, for herself and her children, to relinquish to the United States all the right, title, interest, claim, and demand that she and her children have, or ever had, to two sections of land reserved to her and them in, and by virtue of, a treaty made at Tippecanoe, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, between the United States and the Pottawatamie tribe of Indians; and that, in lieu thereof, she be permitted to locate, for herself and her said children, twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, in legal subdivisions, upon any of the public lands subject to private entry, situate and lying within the bounds of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by virtue of said treaty.
Approved, .