Chapter CCLXXII. for the relief of William D
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Chap. CCLXXII.— An Act for the relief of William D. Gaines and William M. King.July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That all the right, title, and interest, which now has, or might hereafter accrue, or revert to the United States, to a certain Title of U. S. to certain reservations of land, relinquished in their favor. reservation of six hundred and forty acres of land in the county of Jackson, in the state of Alabama, granted to one Thomas Jones, the head of an Indian family, under stipulations in the treaties of one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and the Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi, and which was heretofore sold and conveyed, by said Jones, to William D.
Gaines, and part of which has, by him, been sold to, and is now in possession of, William M. King, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished to the said William D. Gaines and William M. King, respectively: *Provided,* That nothing in this act contained shall Proviso. be so construed as, in any manner, to affect any right of the wife or children of said Jones, in law or equity, which may exist in consequence of any fraud, or unfairness, which may have been practised in obtaining the conveyance from said Jones and his wife and children: nor shall the absence of said Jones, from said reservation, during his life, or at the time of his death, be held, in any manner, to affect the claim of himself or family to said reservation.
Approved, July 14, 1832.