Chapter LXIII. for the relief of the legal representatives of George Pearson
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Chap. LXIII.— An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of George Pearson. April 16, 1818. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and Certificate of Mississippi stock to be issued to the legal representatives of George Pearson, &c.he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be issued, by the proper officer, a certificate or certificates of Mississippi stock, for the sum of six hundred and twenty-five dollars, to the legal representatives of George Pearson, late of the city of Augusta, and State of Georgia, being an indemnity for his claim for five thousand acres of land, held as citizens’ rights, in the Georgia Company’s pretended purchase of land Proviso.from the State of Georgia, in the Mississippi territory: *Provided,* That the legal representatives of the said George Pearson shall previously Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39, sec. 3.take and subscribe the oath required by the third section of the act, passed on the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and fourteen, providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands The affidavit and transfer to be filed in the Department of State, &c.in the Mississippi territory; which affidavit and the transfer, executed by the legal representatives of the said George Pearson, of all their claim, to the United States, according to the provisions of the act aforesaid, shall be filed in the department of state, with the transfers, conveyances, and records, returned to that department by the commissionersAct of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24. appointed under the act supplementary to the act aforesaid, passed on the twenty-third day of January, eighteen hundred and fifteen.
Approved, April 16, 1818.