AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF GEORGE BUSH, OF THURSTON COUNTY, WASHINGTON TERRITORY
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the claim of George Bush to six hundred and forty acres of land in Thurston County, Washington Territory, in virtue of his early settlement, continued residence and cultivation, as set forth in the memorial passed on the seventeenth of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, by the legislative assembly of the Washinton Territory, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed -
the one-half to the said George Bush, and the other half to his wife; and it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the said Territory of Washington, to designate and set apart the quanitiy of land aforesaid, to embrace the residence and settlement of the said George Bush according to the lines of the public surveys, and for the claim hereby confirmed, but not in such a manner as to interfere with any valid or adverse right, if any such exists, to any part of the land claimed as aforesaid; 
and upon the presentation of a certificate from the surveyor general, designating the land which may be set apart under this act, a patent shall issue, if the proceedings are found regular by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 
Approved February 10, 1855.