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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pre-emption rights granted by the register and receiver of the land office at New Orleans, to certain individuals claiming the same, in the south-eastern land district of Louisiana, under the act of Congress approved fifth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “,” and the act approved fifteenth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “,” be, and they are hereby, confirmed; and the register of the land office is hereby directed to issue patent certificates accordingly.

. And be it further enacted, That the re-survey made under the supervision of the surveyor general of Louisiana, of certain lands on the bayou St. Vincent, in sections designated as numbers one hundred and ten and one hundred and forty-three, in township thirteen of range fourteen east, situate in the south-eastern district of Louisiana, and which re-survey purports to include the improvements of the actual settlers within its limits, claiming the right of pre-emption thereto under the, aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and payments may be made and patents issued in accordance therewith.

, June 28, 1834.

commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New York, and commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state