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 TWENT Y-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 331,332, 333. 1836. 677 mum price for which the public lands are sold, a tract of land in East Amhorized to Florida, containing three thousand acres, in Cones’ or Moody hammock, Bmw 8 ¤¤<=¤ Of South of Mizzell’s lagoon, west of the river St. John, upon which they md' have made their settlements under a grant from Don Jose Coppinger, governor of that province, dated sixth of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen; and a survey made by Don Andres Burgevin, bearing date the twelfth day of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, in lieu of the same quantity ofland confirmed to them in another place by the decree of the Supreme Court, at January term, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in the case of George J. F. Clarke against the United States, upon their Bling in the office of the register of public lands for the district of East Florida, a relinquishment of all their right, title, claim, and demand, in and to the land last mentioned. Approved, July 2, 1836. _"""" Srarurm I. CHAP. CCCXXXI.—-An Act for the relief of Hiram ./2. Hunter. July 2, 1836. Be it enacted, rye., That there be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Hiram A. Hunter, late orderly ser— puymcmym. R geant of Captain Robert F. Crittenden’s company of volunteers, the horsclcst. sum of seventy dollars, being the value of a horse lost by him in the service of the United States. Am-novrzn, July 2, 1836. CHAP. CCCXXXII. -An dat for the relief of Elijah Simmons. July *2, 1836. Be it enacted, dce., That Elijah Simmons be, and he is hereby, authorized to locate six hundred and forty acres of the public lands of the Authorized to United States within the state of Alabama, subject to entry at private l0<=¤*¢¤ lf¤¤* sale, in lieu of eight hundred arpens situated on the east side of the °fl°"d‘ Alabama river, in what is commonly called the fork, near the Tensaw river, and to which he was entitled by the laws of Spain, on which he had settled, had cultivated and inhabited in seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, and which has been sold by the United States as public lands: Provided, That t.he said location be made in conformity with Proviso. the legal divisions and subdivisions of public lands, and in quantities not less than one hundred and sixty acres; and on the execution, by the said Elijah Simmons, of a good and sufficient release to the United States of all his right, title, and interest to the said lands as aforesaid, to be filed in the proper land office, patents shall be issued to him for the quantity of one section, as above mentioned. Approved, July 2, 1836. """"` Sruvrr: I. CHAP. CCCXXXIII.-.8n ./Zct for the reIiq” of Samuel Smith, Lynn MacG/ree, jury 2,1535, and Semoice, jricnd/y Oreck Indians. -—··*·····"* Be it enacted, rfc., That Samuel Smith, Lynn MacGhee, and Semoice, friendly Creek Indians, who were entitled, under the treaty with the A,,,t,,,,,Z8d to Creek nation of Indians, ratified on the sixteenth of February, eighteen enter a tract hundred and fifteen, to reservations of six hundred and forty acres of °2;"gpMarch land each, including their improvements, which lands have been sold 2, 1837, Cb_ 2q_ by the United States, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, with the register and receiver of the land office for the land district in which the same may lie, in Alabama, one entire section each ofland subject to entry at private sale; to be held by them on the same terms and conditions as the reservations given by said treaty. Avmzovnn, July 2, 1836. 3 G 2
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