Private Law 20–XCII

That the claims to lands founded on habitation and cultivation, reported for confirmation by the register and receiver of the southwestern district of Louisiana, in their report, dated November first, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in conformity to the provisions of the acts of Congress, of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, and twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, contained in the third class of the report of said register and receiver, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, except claim number forty-two, near Cantonment Jesup, and the claims of Leonard Dyson, numbers fourteen and eighteen; Samuel Norris, numbers ten and thirteen; Baptiste Poiret, brother and sisters, number nineteen; Baptiste TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 106, 112. 1828. Poiret, senior, number twenty; Henry Stockman, number thirty-one; Peter Stockman, number _________; Moses Robison, number twenty-one; James Pharis, number twenty-four; Cesare Wallace, number thirty-four and fifty-six; John Montgomery, junior, number sixty-nine; and Emanuel Trickel, number two hundred and thirty-one; which claims are suspended until it is ascertained whether they are situated within the limits of the lands claimed by the Caddoe Indians.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the confirmations made by this

Confirmations by this act not to be construed to extend further than to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States.

act shall not be construed to extend farther than to a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and the claims hereby confirmed shall be located under the direction of the Register and Receiver of the proper Land Office, in conformity with the legal subdivisions of the public surveys, so far as practicable, and shall include the improvements of the claimants respectively.