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 744 TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss.II. Rss. 3. 1838. seven, assigned and conveyed his title and interest in and to said receipts or certificates for valuable consideration to said Ellis, supposing the same to be assignable; and whereas, the said section of the act aforesaid is so construed by the treasury department that the said receipts or certificates are not available to said Ellis under said assi nment. - Receivers of Bti it therefore resolved, dec., That the several receivers of the land zlgigznd Ofggs offices be authorized and required to receive the said receipts or certiiisaid rgagptsy cates from the said Vespasian Ellis, in payment for any lands which said &,c. in (payment Ellis may locate, and which are liable to private entry, or from the f°' lan S- assignee or assignees of said Ellis when endorsed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as hereinafter directed, for any such lands they may locate, in the same manner as though said receipts or certificates had been ori inally assignable. Commissioner And be it further resolved, That the Commissioner of the General gg; ggineral Land Office be directed to endorse upon the said receipts or certificates endorse S;,%t° that the same are receivable as aforesaid, from said Vespasian Ellis, or receipts, Sw. from his assignee or assignees.
 * 8 ’°°°“'abl°· Approved, May 1-S, 1838.