Volume 6 · 842
Private Law 27–XCI
to authorize the President of the United States to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for the remainder of private land claim number twenty, at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.
Approved July 27, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the President of the United States to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for the remainder of private land claim number twenty, at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Wiskonsan.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the President of the United States be, and
Land patent to be issued.
hereby is, authorized to issue to the heirs of John Campbell a patent for a piece of land lying at Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Wiskonsan, and included within the following boundaries, to wit: beginning at the south-east corner of a tract of land patented to the heirs of John Campbell aforesaid, on the twelfth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and running thence due east one hundred and seventy-three chains and fifty links; thence, north, twenty-seven chains and twelve links; thence, west, to the north-east corner of the tract patented, as aforesaid, to the heirs of John Campbell; thence, along the east boundary of the said tract, to the place of beginning, containing about four hundred and seventy-one acres, and being the balance of private land claim number twenty, to which the aforesaid heirs of John Campbell were entitled, under the provisions of the act of Con- TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 92, 93, 94, 95. 1842. gress, approved on the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight
Act of Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 10.
hundred and twenty-three, entitled “An act to revive and continue-in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the Territory of Wiskonsan.”
Approved, .