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Private Law 23–XLIII
for the relief of Luther L. Smith.
Approved May 14, 1834
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Luther L. Smith.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That it shall be lawful for Luther L. Smith, of the parish of West Feliciana, in the state of Louisiana, at any time
May enter and purchase a tract of land.
within six months from and after the passage of this act, to enter and purchase at the land office at Helena court-house, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, a tract of land situated in said parish of West Feliciana, said to contain two hundred and seventy-nine arpens. French measure, it being the same that was conveyed by Nicholas de Semils, by order of the Intendant General of West Florida, as appears by his process verbal bearing date the fifth day of May, one TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 44, 48, 49. 1834. thousand eight hundred and ten, and numbered eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of Commissioners of Land Claims west of Pearl river and east of the Mississippi in book E, number one, folio one hundred and thirty-eight: Provided, It shall appear
Proviso.
to the satisfaction of the Register and Receiver for the district aforesaid, that the said tract of land is a part of the public domain.
Approved, .