Private Law 27–CCXXXVIII

That Jean Baptist Comeau, of the parish of Lafayette, in the state of Louisiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to

Authorized to enter land, in lieu of a like quantity sold by U.S.

enter, without payment therefor, two hundred and ten acres of land, upon any of the public lands which have been surveyed, and are subject to sale by private entry in the district of lands subject to sale at Opelousas, in lieu of a like quantity of land confirmed to him upon the report of the commissioners of land claims for the western district of Louisiana, of the first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and which was subsequently sold by the United States to a certain Jean E. Lefabvre, under the provisions of the act of the twelfth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “ An act for the final

Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.

adjustment of laud titles in the state of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri Provided, The location of the land, the entry of which is here

Proviso.

authorized, shall, as near as can be, conform to the legal divisions and subdivisions of the surveys of the public lands, and if the quantity located shall exceed two hundred and ten acres, the residue shall be paid for at the minimum price of public lands; and upon a return of

Patent to issue.

the usual certificate to the General Land Office of the United States, a patent shall issue as in other cases of lands sold by the United States.