Chapter LXVI. *for the Relief of Henry T
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Chap. LXVI.— An Act *for the Relief of Henry T. Mudd, of Missouri.* March 2, 1857. Whereas Charles Burke, on the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred Preamble. 1841, ch. 16. Vol. v. p. 463.and fifty-six, entered at the land-office at Palmyra, Missouri, under the provisions of the preemption act of the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, the southeast quarter of section thirty-four, township fifty-one, range two west, containing one hundred and sixty acres, for which he paid two hundred dollars, per receivers receipt number twenty-nine thousand two hundred and ninety-three, which entry failed for want of proof, and was cancelled at the General Land-Office; and whereas Henry T.
Mudd, before said entry was cancelled, in good faith, but in ignorance of the provisions of the preemption law, bought said land of said Burke for eight, hundred dollars, and holds a deed from said Burke, dated March seventeen, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; but the purchase-money, as the law stands and has been construed by the General Land-Office, cannot be paid to said Mudd, though the equitable right is acknowledged to be in him, and said Burke has gone to parts unknown, and his order or power of attorney cannot be had— *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the said transfer of said Payment to Henry T.
Mudd.Burke to said Mudd shall be received and treated as an admission of the right of said Mudd to the repayment of the purchase-money on said entry, viz: the said sum of two hundred dollars, and that the same shall be refunded to him accordingly. Approved, March 2, 1857.