63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS. -CHS. 390, 391, 395-AUG. 3, 4,1949
[CHAPTER 390]
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue duplicates of William Gerard's
script certificates numbered 2, subdivisions 11 and 12, to Blanche H. Weedon
and Amos L. Harris, as trustees.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary
of the Interior is authorized to issue to Blanche H. Weedon and Amos
L. Harris, as trustees, duplicates of William Gerard's special certifi-
cate numbered 2, subdivision numbered 11 and subdivision numbered
12, each originally issued for forty acres of public land pursuant to
the Act of Congress approved February 10, 1855, upon satisfactory
proof of ownership and loss of same and the execution of a bond with
good and sufficient securities, in double the market value of the cer-
tificates so to be issued, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior,
conditioned to indemnify the United States against the presentation
by an innocent holder of the alleged lost certificates. Such duplicates
shall have all the legal force and effect of the original.
Approved August 3, 1949.
[CHAPTER 391]
AN AfCT
August 3, 1949
[H. R . 2863]
[Private Law 186]
Blanche H. Weedon
and Amos L. Harris.
Duplicates of special
certificates.
10 Stat. 849.
August 3, 1949
Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue to L. J. Hand a patent in fee
[H. R. 4261]
to certain lands in the State of Mississippi.
[Priate Law 1861
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary
of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue
to L. J. Hand, a patent in fee to the following-described land, to wit:
The southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section 30, and the
northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, section 31, township 15
north, range 4 east, Choctaw meridian, Holmes County, Mississippi,
containing seventy-nine and eighty-seven one-hundredths acres more
or less: Provided, however, That the issuance of such patent shall
operate only as a conveyance of all the right, title, and interest of the
United States in and to the land described herein, but shall not affect
any valid adverse rights of third parties should any such rights exist.
Approved August 3, 1949.
L. J. Hand.
(CHAPTER 3951
AN ACT
For the relief of Sirkka Siiri Saarelainen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Sirkka Siiri
Saarelainen, who arrived at the port of New York, New York, August
16, 1946, shall, upon the payment of the required visa fee and head
tax, be considered for the purposes of immigration and naturalization
laws, to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for perma-
nent residence. Upon the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
State shall instruct the proper quota-control officer to deduct one
number from the quota for Finland for the first year that such quota
is available.
Approved August 4, 1949.
Auust 4, 1949
[H. R. 1127]
[Private Law 1871
SirkIa liri Saare
aiuota deducti
Quota deduction.
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