Volume 6
Private Law 22–CXXXIV
for the relief of the legal representatives of John McHugh.
Approved June 15, 1832
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the legal representatives of John McHugh.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That there shall be, and hereby is, confirmed unto the legal representatives of John McHugh, the tract of land settled
Land claim confirmed.
upon and cultivated by John McHugh, in his life-time, situate on White Bayou, within a survey once supposed to be the property of D. Amos, but which claim was rejected by Congress; the same lying and situate in the parish of east Baton Rouge, in the state of Louisiana, not to exceed, in the whole, more than six hundred and forty acres, and that a patent shall issue for the said tract of land in the usual form: Provided, however,
Proviso.
That the said legal representatives of the said John McHugh have not, and shall not, claim any other lands in right of settlement and cultivation, and that this act shall operate only as a relinquishment on the part of the United States of all their right and claim to the said lands, and shall not interfere with, or affect the right or claim of other persons.
Approved, .