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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · August 11, 1842 · Chapter CLXIX

Chapter CLXIX. *for the relief f Isabella Hill, widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs at law of Samuel Hill, deceased.* August 11, 1842. *Be it enacted, &c*., That there be allowed and paid to Isabella Hill,To be allowed amount paid for land from which they were ejected. w

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Chap. CLXIX.— An Act *for the relief f Isabella Hill, widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs at law of Samuel Hill, deceased.* August 11, 1842. *Be it enacted, &c*., That there be allowed and paid to Isabella Hill,To be allowed amount paid for land from which they were ejected. widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs of Samuel Hill, late of the county of Monroe, and stale of Illinois, deceased, or their legal representatives, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and forty dollars, the amount of consideration money paid by the said Samuel Hill to the United States in his life-time, for three hundred and twenty acres of land, purchased at the land office at Kaskaskia, in said state, from which said tract of land the said Isabella Hill, widow, and the said John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs of the said Samuel Hill, deceased, were ejected (the said Samuel Hill having died during the pendency of said suit) by the decision of the supreme court of the state of Illinois, at the December term of the said court, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, in favor of Jonathan Moore and others, heirs at law of George Lunceford, who claimed title under a confirmation and patent made to Nicholas Jarrot, by General Arthur St.
Clair, then Governor of the Territory north-west of the Ohio river, on the twelfth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the said sum of money beSaid money, how to be paid and distributed. paid to Isabella Hill, widow, as aforesaid, for herself, and as guardian for the said minor heirs of the said Samuel Hill, deceased, to be accounted for and distributed among the said persons concerned, according to the laws of Illinois, in cases of the distribution of the personal property of such persons as die intestate in said state.
Approved, August 11, 1842. Chapter CLXX: for the relief of George Sheffler. 6 Stat. 860 1842-08-16 Chapter CLXX Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-05 27 2 private
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Chapter CLXIX
*for the relief f Isabella Hill, widow, and John Hill, Elizabeth Hill, and Samuel Hill, children and minor heirs at law of Samuel Hill, deceased.* August 11, 1842. *Be it enacted, &c*., That there be allowed and paid to Isabella Hill,To be allowed amount paid for land from which they were ejected. w
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