“CHAPTER CXCI.

An Act for the relief of William R. Smith, Edenton Thompson, A. M. Franks, Henry C. Lentz, David Andrews, Hardy K. Ware, W. D. Thompson, Samuel J. C. M. Patton, Henrietta Kling, the Heirs of Joel Wilson, the Heirs of William L. Foster, and the Heirs of Daniel Manin.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby required and authorized to issue to William R. Smith, a certificate for six hundred and forty acres of land; also, to David Andrews, Henrietta Kling, the heirs of Joel Wilson, and the heirs of Daniel Manier, each, a certificate for six hundred and forty acres, being the amount to which they were respectively entitled by virtue of their emigration to Texas; also, to Edenton Thompson, A. M. Franks, Henry C. Lentz, Hardy K. Ware, W. D. Chapman, Samuel J. C. M. Patton and the heirs of William C. Foster, each, a certificate for three hundred and twenty acres of land, being the amount to which they were entitled under the laws existing at the time of their emigration.

Sec. 2. That said certificates may be located on any vacant and unappropriated land in this State, and that the Commissioner be, and he is hereby required, upon the return of the field-notes, to issue patents thereon upon the payment of fees and government dues according to the requirements of the law; provided, that the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall be satisfied from an examination of the books and papers of his office, that none of the parties mentioned in this bill, have previously received the land herein granted to them.

Sec. 3. And that his act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 16, 1852.”

Reference Data:

The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, by Texas, Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)and Cadwell Walton Raines, 1898, page 183