An Act for the Relief of Maria Syphax

(from Statues at Large, Vol. 14, 39th Congress, 

1865-67, Chap. 121, p. 589)

June 12, 1866

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the title to a piece of land being part of the Arlington estate, in the county of Alexandria, in the State of Virginia, upon which Maria Syphax has resided since about the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, bounded and described as follows, to wit: 

Beginning at the intersection of the south line of said Arlington estate, with the centre line of a small run, said point of intersection being about one-fourth of a mile from the southwest corner of said Arlington estate, running thence westerly along said south line seven chains and forty links; 

thence in a northeasterly direction, on a line making an angle of thirty-five degrees with the said south line, twenty-two chains and thirty-eight links; 

thence at right angles, in a southeasterly direction, fifteen chains and sixty-seven links to the said south line of Arlington estate; 

thence westerly along the said south line of the said Arlington nineteen chains and ninety-two links, to the place of the beginning, containing seventeen acres and fifty-three one-hundredths of an acre of land, be the same more or less, be, and the same is hereby, released and confirmed unto the said Maria Syphax, her heirs and assigns.

Approved June 12, 1866  (signed) Andrew Johnson, President of the United States

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posted 29 June 2008