Chap. 251.—An ACT to Authorize the Register of the Land Office to Issue
. a Patent to John Lewis, of Alleghany County.

Approved March 29, 1871.

Whereas it appears to the general assembly, that John
Lewis, of the county of Alleghany, did, on the tenth day of
anuary, eighteen hundred and sixty, make an entry upon
three hundred and eight acres of waste and unappropriated
lands lying in said county; and it also appearing that the said
John Lewis cannot conform to the requirements of the act of
assembly passed February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, which act is amendatory of the forty-third sec-
tion of chapter one hundred and twelve of the Code of eighteen
hundred and sixty, on account of the death of William G. Hol-
loway, who was surveyor of said county, and made said sur-
vey; and it further appearing that said John Lewis has com-
plied with the requirements of law in all other respects,
except to have said surveyor’s oath attached to the certificate
of survey, as required by the act above referred to: therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the register of the land office be and he is hereby instructed
to issue, after the expiration of six months from the time the
plat of survey shall have been filed in his office, a patent in due
torm of law to John Lewis, of Alleghany county, tor three hun-
dred and eight acres of land, as declared in his entry of Janu-
ary tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, and now on file in the
land office.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.