Chapter LXVIII. for the relief of James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, of the State of Ohio
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Chap. LXVIII.— An Act for the relief of James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, of the State of Ohio. May 18, 1826. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hePayment to them in full satisfaction for a tract of land sold by mistake. is hereby, authorized and required to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, unto James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, of the state of Ohio, late Mary Wells, a half blooded Indian, of the Miami nation, the sum of nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, in lieu of, and in full satisfaction for, a section of land, which was reserved to her by the treaty held at St.
Mary’s in the state of Ohio, on the sixth of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, between the United States and the Miami nation of Indians, and which is described in said treaty, as “lying at the mouth of Stony Creek, on the south-east side of the Wabash river, the centre of which was to be at the mouth of said creek, running with the meanders thereof, up and down said river, one half mile, and thence back, for quantity:” about two hundred acres of 344 NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch . 69, 70, 71. 1826. which said section of land has since been sold, by mistake of the officers of the Government of the United States, at the Land Office at Crawfordsville, Proviso.in the state of Indiana: *Provided, however,* That, before the payment of the said sum of nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, or any part thereof, to the said James Wolcott, and Mary his wife, they shall execute a release, conveying all their interest in and to said section of land to the United States, which they shall deposit with the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Approved, May 18, 1826.