Volume 6
Private Law 27–CXIX
for the relief of John A. Rockwell.
Approved August 1, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of John A. Rockwell.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the President of the United States be, and
Patent to be issued to him for certain land.
he hereby is, authorized to issue a patent to John A. Rockwell, or his legal representatives, for the south-east quarter of section number fourteen, in township number thirty-three, north of range one, east of the third principal meridian, in the district of lands formerly subject to sale at the land office at Galena, in the state of Illinois: Provided,
Proviso.
That the said John A. Rockwell, or his legal representatives, shall satisfactorily appear to the Secretary of the Treasury to have been the legal assignee of Richard Long, of the certificate of purchase of said lands, or shall prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that he holds a conveyance for the same, executed to him by the said Richard Long before his right of pre-emption to the said lands had been set aside by the proper department, on account of a defect in the proof of cultivation.
Approved, .