Chapter CIV. to make compensation to Hugh McClung, for a tract of land situate in the state of Tennessee
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Chap. CIV.— An Act to make compensation to Hugh McClung, for a tract of land situate in the state of Tennessee. May 20, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to Hugh McClung, of the county of Lancaster,Payment to him for land in Tennessee. in the state of Pennsylvania, the sum of five thousand dollars, in full compensation for a tract of land, containing six hundred and forty acres, situate in the county of Hamilton, and District of East Tennessee, to which the said Hugh claimed title, and which is secured to James Brown, a Cherokee Indian, in fee simple, by the third article of the Convention between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, made at the city of Washington, and dated the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and which was recovered by the said James Brown, by the judgment of the Federal Circuit Court, for said District of East Tennessee, at the October term thereof, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the said sum of money shallAppropriation. be paid to the said Hugh out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 20, 1826.