Chapter XIX. *to confirm the sale of certain reservations.*Feb. 6, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the sale of the following reserve, under the provisions of the second article of the treaty with the PottawatamiesLand sale confirmed. of the Prairie of twentieth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to wi
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Chap. XIX.— An Act *to confirm the sale of certain reservations.*Feb. 6, 1839. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the sale of the following reserve, under the provisions of the second article of the treaty with the PottawatamiesLand sale confirmed. of the Prairie of twentieth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to wit: “five sections for Shawwasnas-see, to include Little Rock village,” be, and the same hereby is, confirmed to Cyrus Taber, and Allen Hamilton and Hiram Todd, the purchasers from the said reservee: *Provided*, That no such sale or conveyance of said lands, or any partProviso. thereof, shall be valid or effectual until every such conveyance or” deed shall be submitted to the President of the United States for his approbation: and if, after inquiry into the facts and circumstances attending the contracts for the sale of any of the said lands as aforesaid, he shall be satisfied that such contracts were fair, and that the consideration paid or secured to be paid therefor is adequate, he shall endorse his approval on each conveyance and deed so approved, and thereafter the same shall be deemed valid and effectual.
Approved, February 6, 1839.