This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lY.2ADE/338.1 Message Board Post: Here is a little Historical note I hope you like it. Bills and Resolutions, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 2nd Session: Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anson Rudd. Whereas Anson Rudd, and Harriet, his wife, of Fremont County, Colorado Territory, did, on the twentieth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, by ... Committee: Committee on Private Land Claims January 15, 1872 Read twice, referred to the Committee on Private Land Claims, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Chaffee, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill For the relief of Anson Rudd. Whereas Anson Rudd, and Harriet, his wife, of Fremont County, Colorado Territory, did, on the twentieth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, by deed of that date, convey to the United States a certain tract of land situate in said county and Territory, known and described as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section thirty-two, in township number eighteen south, of range seventy west; running thence east one hundred rods; thence south forty rods; thence west one hundred rods; thence north forty rods, containing twenty-five acres; which said land was so conveyed by said Rudd and wife to the United States, to be used and occupied by the United States as a site for a penitentiary building, and upon no other consideration whatever; and! whereas the said tract of land was not accepted by the United States for the purpose aforesaid, and the penitentiary in the Territory of Colorado has been located upon another and different tract of land: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said deed made by Anson Rudd and wife, bearing date as foresaid, and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Freemont County, Colorado Territory, be inoperative and without effect, and the said Rudd shall hold the tract of land therein described free and discharged therefrom.