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Private Law 25–CCXXVII
for the relief of Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama.
Approved March 3, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Etienne (Stephen) La Lande, of Alabama, be,
Land title confirmed.
and he hereby is, confirmed in his title to eight hundred arpens of TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 228, 230, 231. 1839. land, (on which he now resides,) situate in the county of Mobile and state of Alabama, on the west side of Dog river, having twenty arpens in front on said river, with forty arpens in depth; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby required to issue a patent to the said Etienne (Stephen) La Lande for the said tract of land: Provided, however, That this confirmation shall amount only to a relinquishment
Proviso.
on the part of the United States of all their right and title to the said land, and shall not interfere with, or extinguish, any elder or better right, if any there be, to the same.
Approved, .