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 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch.9, 10, 1l,l2, 13. 1840. 797 S1·A:ru·rz I. CHAP. IX.-An Act for the relief of Sutter: Stephens. April gy, IMO_ Be it enacted, e§•c., That all the right, title, and interest which might aeorue or revert to the United States to a certain tract of land in Jack- R; ht gm 0; Son oounty, Alabama, reserved to Sutton Stephens under a treaty made U·  ti: a certmd concluded between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of '“l¥‘,;’°°°·'°li"‘ Indians, on the eighth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventeen, be,   ed to mm' andthe same are hereby, relinquished, and vested in the said Sutten Stephens and his heirs: Provided, That no conveyance or deed of the p,,,,,;,,, said tract of land shall be valid or effectual, until such conveyance or deed shall be submitted to one of the district attorneys of Alabama for his approbation ; and if, after inquiry into the facts and circumstances attending the contract for the sale of said land, or any part thereof, he shall be satisfied that said contract is fair, and that the consideration paid or agreed to be paid therefor is adequate, he shall endorse his approbation on such deed or conveyance so approved, and thereafter the same shall be deemed valid and effectual. Approved, April 27, 1840. __; S1·ATU·rs I. CHAP. X. ——An Act for the reliq of the heirs and legal representatives of John May 2, 1g4g_ Grimba l, senior, deceased. ——·—-·-——- Be it enacted, dw., That the heirs and legal representatives of John Grimball, senior, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate Authorized to two hundred and twenty-three and one-fourth acres, or one and a half 1°°°'° 1°“d· quarter sections of land, not exceeding that quantity in the Opelousas land district, in the state of Louisiana, upon any unreserved and unappropriated land in said district. Aernovnn, May 2, 1840. 1; S:rArucrz I. CHA}-. XI. -An Act for the relief of James Brewer, of Ohio. May 2, 1g4U_ Be it enacted, <§~c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Brewer, Payment {0, of Tuscarawas county, Ohio, or to his legal representatives, one hundred land to be·redollars, being the amount by him paid to the United States on the thir- {:;*122; w“h tieth day of January, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ` thirty-two, with interest from that date, at the land office in Zanesville, Ohio, for the west half of the south-west quarter of section number fourteen, in township number eight, range number three, in the Zanesville land district, and for which said land the United States cannot make the said James Brewer a title. Approved, May 2, 1840. --— Sxwruass I. CHAP. XII. — An Act to authorize James dlexander to relinquish certain land, May 2, 1840. and to locate other land in lieu lhereo/Z Be it enacted, &·c., That James Alexander be, and he is hereby, authorized to relinquish to the United States the east half of the south-east Authorzed to quarter of section number three, in township numbennrne north,·1n iglxlgxlgg ss? range fourteen west of the second principal meridian, in the Palestine 6,,,,,. ,,,,6,;,,,, land district, state of Illinois; and that he be permitted tolenter, in lieu tract. thereof, a like quantity of land within the limits of said district subject to private entry. Aprnovmn, May 2, 1840. S I . urucra. CHAP. XIII.-An det for the relief of Nathan Levy. May 2, 1840· Be it enacted, &·c., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Nathan Levy, American consul at the island of St. Thornasé ou; of any money ri