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Private Law 27–CCXXXVII
for the relief of the legal representatives of Therese Malette, widow of Gaspard Phiole.
Approved August 29, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of the legal representatives of Therese Malette, widow of Gaspard Phiole.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the legal representatives ofTherese Malette,
Authorized to locate four floating rights, in lieu of, &c.
widow of Gaspard Phiole, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate four floating rights, of five hundred acres each, on any unappropriated lands west of the Mississippi, in the state of Louisiana, which shall be in lieu of their claim to a tract of two thousand acres of land, recommended for confirmation by the old board of commissioners at Opelousas, and confirmed by the act of the twenty-ninth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, the location of which is disputed by the
1816, ch. 159.
Proviso.
Land Office: Provided, That before patents shall issue for the lands, the location of which is authorized by this act, the legal representatives of TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 238, 239, 240. 1842. said Therese Malette shall surrender to the United States, in such manner as the Commissioner of the Land Office shall direct, all right, title, and interest, in and to the land held under the aforesaid confirmation: And provided, also, Said locations shall be made on lands subject
Proviso.
to sale at private entry, and to conform as nearly as possible to the public surveys of the United States.
Approved, .