Chapter XLV. for the relief of Abraham Adams
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Chap. XLV.— An Act for the relief of Abraham Adams.Feb. 20, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That it shall be lawful for Abraham Adams, of the state of Alabama, to surrender to the United States, at the land Certificate of land purchase to be surrendered. office at Cahawba, in said state, the certificate of purchase which he holds for the west half of the north-west quarter of section thirteen, township twelve, and range seventeen, in the said district of Cahawba, and which tract of land was entered and paid for by the said Adams, in May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by mistake, he, the said Adams, intending to have entered the corresponding tract, in township eleven, upon which he then and still resides.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the register and receiver Authorized to enter land, &c. for the said district shall permit the said Abraham Adams to enter, upon the same terms on which the entry aforesaid was made, the west half of the north-west quarter of section thirteen, township eleven, range seventeen, and issue to him a certificate therefor, and apply the money paid under the former entry, to the payments of the land herein author-536TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess.
II. Ch. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50. 1833.ized to be entered, and in case said west half of the north-west quarter of section thirteen, township eleven, range seventeen, shall have been entered, the register, upon the surrender of the original certificate of purchase, shall issue to said Adams a certificate, or scrip, for the amount paid, which shall be received in payment of any other lands within said district, now subject to private entry. Approved, February 20, 1833.