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Private Law 23–CCXXXIX
for the relief of Peter Mills.
Approved June 30, 1834
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Peter Mills.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Peter Mills, assignee of Joshua Sprague, be, and he is hereby authorized to locate three hundred and twenty acres
Authorized to locate land.
of land in legal subdivisions, on any land of the United States, subject to entry at private sale, in satisfaction of an equal quantity of land, viz. TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 240, 241, 242, 243. 1834. half section number seven, township five, and range twenty-two, heretofore located by Joshua Sprague under an act of Congress approved the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and twelve, and conveyed by said Sprague to said Peter Mills, which said half section was patented to one Robert Culbertson on a mill pre-emption right, and is now held adversely to said Mills under said patent. And the President of the United States is authorized to issue a patent to said Peter Mills on his producing a certificate of the Register of the Land Office within whose district such location may be made.
Approved, .