Volume 6
Private Law 19–XIX
for the relief of Richard Matson.
Approved March 31, 1826
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Richard Matson.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Richard Matson, of the state of Missouri,
Authorized to withdraw his locations of warrants, and locate them elsewhere.
be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw his locations of warrant, number one hundred and fifty-five, for six hundred and forty acres, and of warrant number one hundred and forty-three, for two hundred arpens of land, issued by the recorder of land titles in the state of Missouri, and located on the twentieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, in township fifty-five north, range three west, in said state, and since mostly covered by a confirmed Spanish grant; and to locate the same warrants upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States, in the state of Missouri, that were liable to be located, under
Act ofFeb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.
the act of the seventeenth of February, eighteen hundred and fifteen, for the relief of sufferers by earthquakes; conforming such relocations, as nearly as may be, to the divisional lines of the public surveys, and subject, in all respects, to said act of the seventeenth of February, eighteen
Proviso.
hundred and fifteen: Provided, That the said warrants shall be located within one year from the passing of this act, and on lands which have not before been located or sold.
Approved, .