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 TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 272, 273, 274. 1832. 519 tary service of the United States, and for other purposes; passed ninth April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen :" Provided, That the pmygm proper accounting officer be satisfied that the title of the building so destroyed is in the said John Brunson. Approved, July 14, 1832. "—‘—·‘ Snwn I. Cru?. CCLXXII. — An Act for tig! Gill;;" of W71I5am D. Gaines and Willidm July 14, 1832. . mg. ""_""""" Be it enacted, dw., That all the right, title, and interest, which now has, or might hereafter accrue, or revert to the United States, to a cer- Title of U.S. tain reservation of six hundred and forty acres of land in the county of *° ‘?°'*°l"f’f°°5‘ Jackson, in the state of Alabama, granted to one Thomas Jones, the ;:li:,;':i§H6;?,,’ head of an Indian family, under stipulations in the treaties of one thou- their favor. sand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and the Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi, and which was heretofore sold and conveyed, by said Jones, to William D. Gaines, and part of which has, by him, been sold to, and is now in possession of, William M. King, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished to the said William D. Gaines and William M. King, respectively: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall Proviso. be so construed as, in any manner, to affect any right of the wife or children of said Jones, in law or equity, which may exist in consequence of any fraud, or unfairness, which may have been practised in obtaining the conveyance from said Jones and his wife and children: nor shall the absence of said Jones, from said reservation, during his life, or at the time of his death, he held, in any manner, to affect the claim of himself or family to said reservation. Approved, July 14, 1832. ———-—— Sururx I. Can. CCLXXIII. - An Aol for the relief of John E Girod, of Louisiana. July 14, 1832. Be it enacted, <§·e., That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he hereby is, directed to issue to John F. Girod a patent Land patent to for four fractional quarter sections of land in the parish of Ouachita, *,;§m*”¤°d '° state of Louisiana, containing two hundred and ninety-two acres and ` eleven-hundredths, lying in township seventeen, range three east, section second, it being the same lately sold at the land sales at Ouachita, and purchased by said Girod, through his agent, Bernard Hemkin. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea- Moneyjmprosury shall pay to said Girod, out of any money in the treasury not other- {_’°,3’lYf$d *° b' wise appropriated, the sum of three hundred and twenty-five dollars and ° 'm ` eighty-eight and three-fourths cents, this being the amount improperly paid by Girod for said land; and that said Girod be exempted from all further liability to the Government, on account of any part of the purchase money of said land yet unpaid. Aprizovran, July 14, 1832. -——-— Srnura I. CHAP. CCLX)(IV.—An Act for the rilzq" if William Wayne Wells, of the state July 14, 1832. of I iam. Be it enacted, Qro., That under the directions of the Secretary of War, there shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not other- Payment for a wise appropriated, to the said William Wayne Wells, of the state of 2%::3 jgsélgzd Indiana, the sum of one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars, in ,0 him, &,,,_ full satisfaction of a section of land allowed and reserved to him by the treaty with the Miami tribe of Indians, dated sixth October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and which said section of land was afterwards reserved for the use of the Miami tribe of Indians, in the treaty made with them, and dated twenty-third October, one thousand