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Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized to contract with Elie Williams, for the sale of a certain lot of ground, twenty perches in length, and sixteen perches in breadth, situate in the town of Cincinnati, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, it being the same lot on which certain buildings were erected by the said Elie Williams and Robert Elliot, deceased, when contractors for supplying the western army with provisions.

. And be it further enacted, That on payment into the Treasury of the United States of such sum or sums of money as shall have been agreed upon between the said Elie Williams and the Secretary of the Treasury, as the price of the above mentioned lot, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to grant a patent for the same, to the said Elie Williams, his heirs or assigns.

, July 16, 1798.