Chapter CCXIX. for the Relief of Addison Goodell, of Illinois
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CHAP. CCXIX.— An Act for the Relief of Addison Goodell, of Illinois. March 1, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the commissioner of theRepayment to Addison Goodell. general land office be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to state an account in favor of Addison Goodell, of Illinois, for the repayment of four hundred dollars, paid as the purchase-money of the northwest quarter of section number twenty-five, in township twenty-four, north of range ten east, entered by Thomas G.
L. Wamsley, on the twenty-ninth of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, per Danville, Illinois, certificate number eighteen thousand three hundred and twenty, and sold by him to said Addison Goodell, the entry having been cancelled at the general land office: *Provided,* That before the said sum of four hundred dollarsBond of indemnity to the United States. shall be paid to the said Addison Goodell, he shall execute a bond to the United States, in the sum of eight hundred dollars, with sufficient surety to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned to save harmless the United States from any liability to said Thomas G.
L. Wamsley, or any person claiming under him, by reason of the payment hereby authorized to be made to the said Addison Goodell. Approved, March 1, 1873.