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THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 23, 24, 25. 1856. 483 iirmation is in no manner to affect or impair any adverse valid rights, if Advem *%*1;**8 such should be found to exist; but the area of such interference, if not igggioagg gmif less than the quantity of a sixteenth of a section, the aforesaid legal rep- ed therefor. resentatives shall be authorized to locate on other government lands in Louisiana, subject to entry by private sale at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre or less. SEc. 2. And be it further enacted That it shall be the duty of the Aseeminment Surveyor-General of Louisiana to ascertain whether any part of the ;};°£,:;r;l;°'° original claim is not covered by other rights, and for such portion he shall I-ight_, make a return of a plat to the General Land-Office; and for the area of interference, if not less than the quantity aforesaid, he shall issue his certificate authorizing the location thereof on other lands in Louisiana as aforesaid; and upon the return of such a plat, or the surveyor-general’s certificate, with the tracts designated thereon by the proper register, which may be selected in accordance with this act, a patent shall issue. Approved, August 23, 1856. Om?. XX1II.—An Act for the Relief of James M. Lindsay. August 23, 1856, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of James M. Land claim of Lindsay, of the State of Alabama, to fractional section twenty-one, town- James M, Lauri. ship six, range five, west of the Alabama River, except the south half of S35', ¢°¤6*`m6d- the southeast quarter and the south half of the southwest quarter of said section be and the same is hereby confirmed-—the land herein described being the part of a reservation made to Samuel and David Hale, Creek Indians, by the treaty of the ninth of August, eighteen hundred VO], v5_P, mo, and fourteen, between the United States and the hostile Creeks: Pro- Ad . ms vided, That this act shall be construed to vest in the said Lindsay only Savcdlem mg the reversionary interest of the United States, and not to prejudice the rights of bond jide claimants other than the United States. APPROVED, August 23, 1856. CHAP. X.XI`\[.—An Act jbr the Relief tg the egegal Mpresentatives of T/zomas Gordon, August 23, 1856_ eeeas . ...A.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to the legal representatives of Thomas Gordon, deceased, out of any money in the payment to Treasury not otherwise appropriated, nineteen and eighteen ninetieths representatives dollars, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the ggI;Ih°m“S G°" fifth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, being in ` full for a certificate given by Timothy Pickering, quartermaster-genera.}, to the said Thomas Gordon, deceased, for nineteen and eighteen ninetieths dollars and interest, and bearing date the twenty-ninth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two. Approved, August 23, 1856. CHAP. XXV.——An Act for the Relief of Antoine Robedcau. August 23,1355, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativesof the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior shall inscribe on the invalid pension roll the name of Antoine Ro- Antoine Robedeau, who was an interpreter to General Kearney whilst in command gfgfff sfu_ of the army of the West, and was wounded in' the battle of San Pasqual, sion you at