Chapter LXIV. to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing Repayment for Land erroneously sold by the United States.”Feb. 28, 1859.1825, ch. 5. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act of Congress,Act of 1825 ch. 5, (vol. iv. p.
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Chap. LXIV.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing Repayment for Land erroneously sold by the United States.”Feb. 28, 1859.1825, ch. 5. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the act of Congress,Act of 1825 ch. 5, (vol. iv. p. 80,) amended. “authorizing repayment for lands erroneously sold by the United States,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, upon proof being made to his satisfaction, that any tract of land has beenWhere sale of land by U.
S. cannot be confirmed, purchase-money to be repaid. erroneously sold by the United States, so that from any cause whatever, 388THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 65, 66. 1859. the sale cannot be confirmed, to repay to the purchaser or purchasers, or to the legal representatives or assignees of the purchaser or purchasers thereof, the sum or sums of money, which may have been paid therefor, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 2. [*And*] *be it further enacted,* That, whenever any tract of landWhere purchase-money is invested in stocks, stocks may be sold, &c. has been erroneously sold, as aforesaid, and the sum or sums of money which may have been paid for the same, shall have been invested in any stocks held in trust, or shall have been paid into the treasury of the United States, to the credit of any trust fund, it shall be lawful by the sale of such portion of the said stocks as may be necessary for that purpose, or out of said trust fund, for repayment of the purchase-money to be made to the parties entitled thereto.
Approved, February 28, 1859.