Chapter V. *to provide for the early disposition of the lands lying in the State of Alabama, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.* March 4, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
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Chap. V.— An Act *to provide for the early disposition of the lands lying in the State of Alabama, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.* March 4, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all that part of Said lands to be added to the Huntsville and Coosa districts.the territory acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of New Echota of twenty-ninth December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, within the State of Alabama, which lies west of the line dividing ranges two and three east of the basis meridian of Huntsville, shall be added to and form a part of said district; and all the territory acquired by the said treaty within the said State not attached to the Huntsville district, as above described, shall be annexed to and form a part of the Coosa land district, in said State.
Land office for the Coosa dist. to be removed. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the land office for the Coosa land district, at present located at Mardisville, shall be removed to Lebanon in the county of De Kalb. Approved, March 4, 1842.