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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · April 6, 1838 · Chapter L

Chapter L. *for the relief of Isaac Wellborn, junior, and William Well-born.*April 6, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That there shall be, and is hereby, relinquished to Isaac Wellborn,Right, &c. of U

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Chap. L.— An Act *for the relief of Isaac Wellborn, junior, and William Well-born.*April 6, 1838. *Be it enacted, &c*.,That there shall be, and is hereby, relinquished to Isaac Wellborn,Right, &c. of U.S. to a certain reservation of land, relinquished to them. jr., and William Wellborn, their heirs and assigns, all the right, title, and interest which may have accrued or reverted, or might hereafter accrue or revert, to the United States, to a certain reservation of six hundred and forty acres of land, made to a certain Thomas Harrison, the head of an Indian family of the Cherokee tribe, under treaties made between said tribe and the Government of the United States, on the eighth of July, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the twenty-seventh of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, which tract of land is situated in Jackson county, Alabama, and bounded as follows:
Beginning at two post oaks and a red oak; thence west three hundred and twenty poles to a stake near the top of a steep rocky mountain; thence south three hundred and twenty poles to a white oak and red oak on the top of a ridge; thence east three hundred and twenty poles to a stake; a Spanish oak, chinquepin oak, mulberry, and two hickories, marked as pointers; thence north three hundred and twenty Proviso.poles to the beginning: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair or lessen the right or title of any individual claiming under the said Thomas Harrison, and who may not have fairly or legally transferred his or her interest in the said tract of land.
Approved, April 6, 1838.
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