Volume 6
Private Law 25–CLXXXIII
for the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas.
Approved March 3, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John Borey, of Arkansas.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That it shall be the duty of the register and
Patent certificate. to be surrendered to him, &c.
receiver of the land office at Little Rock, in the state of Arkansas, to surrender to John Borey, or his legal representative, the patent certificate (number two hundred and seventy-eight) which was issued to said John Borey, for the east half of fractional section twenty-three, in township one, south, and in range eleven west; and that said register and receiver be authorized to consider said land as other public land, and that the said John Borey, or his legal representative, be authorized to locate, in any land office in Arkansas, three hundred and twenty acres of any of the
Proviso.
public land, conformably to legal subdivisions: Provided, The same be subject to private entry. And for the land thus located,
Proviso.
it shall be the duty of the proper register and receiver to issue a patent certificate, and for the President to issue a patent therefor: Provided, further, That in case the title to the lands for which his patent certificate was taken have become vested in him, he shall reconvey the same to the Government, and produce to the Secretary of the Treasury satisfactory evidence that said lands so reconveyed are free from encumbrance.
Approved, .