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 470 TWENTY·FIR.ST CONGRESS. Sess. JI. Ch. 125. 1831. son, and reported for confirmation by the Register and Receiver of the land office at Jackson Court-house, Mississippi, dated July the twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three. pmm ,0 b,, Sao, 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the issued. General Land Office, upon being presented with plats and certificates of survey of the said tract of land, legally executed by a proper oiliicer, shall issue a patent for the same; which patent shall operate only as a relinquishment, on the part of the United States, of all right and title to said land. In case said Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, if it shall appear to the sattmct shall have isfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Othee that the claim Bggfvgfllgégfsg; herein above alluded to, or any part thereof, shall have been sold, pa. another at-ae:. tented, or confirmed, to any person, previous to the passage of this act, then and in that case, the said Woodson Wren shall be allowed to enter the same number of acres of the clairn thus sold, patented, or confirmed, to any other person, or any of the unappropriated lands in the state of Mississippi that may be subject to private entry, conforming, in such entry, to the divisions and subdivisions established by law. Approved, March 3, 1831.