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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 9 STAT. · July 15, 1846 · Chapter XLVI

Chapter XLVI. for the Relief of Adam McCulloch

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Chap. XLVI.— An Act for the Relief of Adam McCulloch. July 15, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, A. McCulloch to be paid $300 for his legal title to Goat Island, Maine, on conveying the same to U. S. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Adam McCulloch, the sum of three hundred dollars, if it shall be ascertained by the solicitor of the treasury that the legal title of Goat Island, in the State of Maine, (whereon a lighthouse has been built by the United States,) is in the said Adam McCulloch, and he, the said Adam McCulloch, will first convey his title to said Goat Island to the United States.
Approved, July 15, 1846.
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