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690 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. C11. 4.58-460. 1885. Hatch 3, 1385. CHAP. 458.-An act for the relief of Joseph F, Wilson, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Joseph F. Wu- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the ¤¤¤- General Land Office under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, be, mI:,”g·u:¢f':•#‘Q':; and he is hereby authorized and required to issue to Joseph F, Wilson, ,,,,,,,1-],,,,11,,,5;,,. of Peoria, Illinois, or his legal representatives or assigns, a number of judgmsntofcourt. warrants equal to eighty acres in- tracts not less than the subdivisions provided for in the United States land laws, to be located by the said Wilson, or his legal representatives or assigns, on any of the unoccupied and unappropriated public lands of the United States subject to preemption or homestead settlement, in lieu of the west half of the northeast quarter of section nineteen, in township thirty-five north, of range five west, situate in Porter County, Indiana, which said tract of land was entered by and patented to Josiah Smith, of Macon County, Missouri, under and by virtue of the provisions of the acts of Congress $8mn»3;’·l· Y'- °h· approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and March gid 17 an third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, relating to additional homegpm ’ steads, and by the said Josiah Smith, after his said entry, sold and conveyed to the said Wilson, and of the title to and possession of which. the said Wilson was divested and dispossessed by the judgment and decree of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana, at the November term, anno Domiui eighteen hundred and eighty, thereof, by reason of a prior disposal of or a prior equitable title in and to said tract of land, as the said court held and decided, to or in persons other than the said Josiah Smith; and the said Wilson, or his legal representatives or assigns, alter the location of the said warrants Pstontn •11¤wed. on such lands as he or they may aalect, shall be allowed patents for thelands so located; and the lands en, selected, and located as authorized and provided for by this act shall be·in full satisfaction of any claim, right, or beueiit which the said Josiah Smith, orcany one claiming under him, may have, or may have had under and of the— _ To poiofuiioot- provisions of the said acts of Congress, as well as in full satisfaction ot" ¤f¤¤¤°¤- any claim which the said Wilson as assignee or grantee of the said Josiah Smith, may have, or may have had, against the United States touching said described tract of land. Approved, March 3d, 1885. 1{aroh3,1§. CHAR459.-—An sctbrth•r•licfofP•rdomH.l(c¤oy. · Be itmactedby the ScnateandHoauqf of the United' 1>•¤io¤H.Mm·oy. States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- P¤¤•i°¤ i¤· terior be, and hereby is, authorised and directed to allow to Pardon H. °'°°'°d‘ Morey, of Chautauqua, Chautauqua County, New York, late a private in the Seventh Company, First Battalion New York Sharpshooters, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws, a pension. for single inguinal hernia, in addition to that now received by him. Approved, March 3d, 1885. g,mb3,1g_ CHA.P.460.-·Auaot£0rtb¤t¤li¤f¤fH¤IdsP.B¤bbnr. Bsit enactedby the Senate andloussofltspressntaticesoj the Units! Ida P. Belcher. Bram of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- P·¤¤l¤¤· terior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place the name of Ida P. Belcher, widow of the late Captain Edwin Belcher, ofCompany E, Seventy-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, on the pension-roll, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws as applicable to widows of deceased officers and soldiers, Approved, March 3d, 1885.