Volume 6
Private Law 25–CCXXIII
for the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin.
Approved March 3, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John Dougherty, of Wisconsin.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That John Dougherty, of the Territory of Wisconsin,
Authorized to enter certain land.
be, and is hereby, authorized to enter at the land office at Mineral Point, in the Territory aforesaid, by paying the minimum price for the same, section number twelve, of township number two, in range number three east, in the district of land subject to sale at Mineral Point; the said section being the same that was granted to his wife Mary, the daughter of Kee-no-kee, by stipulations embraced in the treaty entered into by and between the United States and the Winnebago tribe of Indians, at Prairie du Chien, August first, eighteen
Proviso.
hundred and twenty-nine: Provided, That the certificate of the said John Dougherty, and the patent to be issued thereon, shall recite the provisions of this act, as the authority, by virtue of which his said entries have been made, and also show that such entries were made in right of his wife; and if the said John Dougherty shall abandon, or in any other manner separate from his said wife Mary, during her life-time, then ail the right, title, and interest in and to said section, and every part thereof, shall vest in said Mary, and inure to the sole benefit of herself and her children.
Approved, .