Private Law 22–LXXXVII

That the title of Arnaud Lanaux be confirmed, in

Land title confirmed.

and to a certain tract of land lying and being in the state of Louisiana, on the left bank of the Mississippi, about six leagues below the city of New Orleans, at a place called the English Turn, containing eight arpents front and forty arpents in depth, according to the survey made by B. Lafon, on the twenty-first of January, eighteen hundred and five, and which is recognised in a patent from the French Government, bearing date the fifth of March, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, and which is recorded among the patented concessions of land, in book number one, at page one hundred and fifty-eight, in the Register’s office of the lands of the United States, at New Orleans, in the same manner and upon the same conditions, as if notice had been regularly filed with the Commissioners of the United States, and the same had been by

Proviso.

them confirmed: Provided, That this act shall only be construed as a relinquishment of the Government of all claim to said tract of land to

Proviso.

said claimant: And provided, also, That this act shall not operate against the claim of any other person to said tract of land.