Chapter IV. for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Barbour, deceased
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Chap. IV.— An Act for the relief of the legal representative of Philip Barbour, deceased. Jan. 14, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The register and receiver in Mississippi to report to the general land office the value of 1500 acres of land, &c. That the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys of the United States, in the state of Mississippi, west of Pearl river, be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, within twelve months after the passage of this act, to report to the Commissioner of the General Land Office the value of fifteen hundred acres of land, situated on the river Mississippi, at the mouth of Big Black, commonly called Grand Gulph, patented in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy, by the government of West Florida, to Philip Barbour, deceased; the said register and receiver having, in making such estimate, a due regard to the time when the said land, or any part of it, was sold by the government of the United States: whereupon the said Commissioner of the General Land Office shall issue to the legal representative of the said Philip Barbour, deceased, a certificate of the amount so reported by the said register and receiver; which certificate shall be receivable in payment of any debt which may have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, to the United States, on the sale of any of the Proviso.public lands: *Provided, however,* That, before the said Commissioner of the General Land Office shall issue the certificate, the said legal representative shall file in his office a written release, under his hand and seal, with all the solemnities necessary to make it valid and operative, whereby he shall release to the United States all his claim to the said fifteen hundred acres of land.
Approved, January 14, 1820.