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Volume 6

Private Law 27–CXXXIII

for the relief of George H. Walker.

Approved August 11, 1842

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of George H. Walker.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That George H. Walker be, and he hereby is, authorized

Authorized to enter certain land.

to enter, at the land office in the district in which it lies, the north-east quarter of section thirty-two, in township seven north, of range twenty-two east, in the Milwaukie land district, Wiskonsan Territory, at the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, he having entitled himself to a pre-emption right thereto, under the act of the twenty-second

Act of June 22, 1838, ch. 119.

of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, by inhabitancy and cultivation, but said land having been reserved to the United States, as part of one of the “ even sections ” mentioned in the first section

Act of June 18, 1838, ch. 114, sec. 1.

of the act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, granting a quantity of land to the Territory of Wiskonsan, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those of Rock river.

Approved, .

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