Chapter 198. for the relief of William D
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CHAP. 198.— An Act for the relief of William D. Oyler.June 10, 1880.Preamble. Whereas, William D, Oyler, purchased of the United States, by cash entry on the twenty-first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, at Dixon, Illinois, the west half of the northeast quarter of section nineteen, in township twenty-six north, of range six east, and paid therefor the sum of one hundred dollars, and afterward conveyed the same to Jacob Jackson, who conveyed the same to Peter H.
Bigelow and John Jackson, who were in fact, partners in trade; and Whereas afterward the title of said William D. Oyler and his assignees to said land failing, by reason of conflict of his entry with a prior preemption claim thereon of John Shumaker, and the said William D. Oyler, because of said failure of title, having, as appears, afterward refunded the purchase-money to said Peter H. Bigelow and John Jackson, and thereby became entitled to have said original purchase-money refunded to him by the United States; and Whereas the same has never been refunded because of technical insufficiency of the quitclaim made by said assignees to said Oyler:
Now, therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*William D. Oyler.Amount paid for lande refunded., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to refund and pay to said William D. Oyler, or his legal representatives, the sum of one hundred dollars in full satisfaction and discharge of any claim in the premises. Approved, June 10, 1880.