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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · June 28, 1838 · Chapter CXXV

Chapter CXXV. *for the relief of James A

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Chap. CXXV.— An Act *for the relief of James A. Williams.*June 28, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That James A. Williams, of Blount county, Alabama,May surrender land certificate, and receive another therefor. be, and he hereby is, authorized to surrender the certificate which heretofore issued to him from the land office at Huntsville, in said state, for the east half of the north-west quarter of section twenty-one, in township eleven, of range two, west of the basis meridian of said land district, which was entered and paid for by him through mistake; and upon such surrender of said certificate, or, if a patent shall have issued for said land, upon surrendering the same, and filing his relinquishment in said land office, the said James A.
Williams shall be entitled to a certificate from the register of said land office for the amount which was paid thereon; which shall be received in payment for any other Proviso.land in said land district, subject to private entry: *Provided*, That said tract of land so entered shall not have been sold and transferred, or shall not be subject to be disposed of by execution for the payment of the debts of the said Williams. Approved, June 28, 1838.
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