Chapter XLVI. for the Relief of Al-lo-lah and his legal Representatives and their Grantees
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Chap. XLVI.— An Act for the Relief of Al-lo-lah and his legal Representatives and their Grantees. Aug. 30, 1850. Whereas, in the survey and location of the section of land granted toPreamble. “Al-lo-lah,” by the twelfth article of the treaty concluded at the Forks of the Wabash, Indiana, on the sixth November, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and ratified February eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, between the United States and the Miami tribe of Indians, a mistake was made, whereby the same was located below and adjoining the section granted to Mais-shir-goim Mi-yah, and on the same creek, and not above, as required by the provisions of said treaty; and whereas, since the erroneous location of said reserve, the section described in said treaty has been sold and conveyed to bona fide purchasers by the United States; and whereas, since the death of said Al-lo-lah, his legal heirs have sold and conveyed their interest in said reservation to Cot-te-se-pawn and his heirs— *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The title to certain land to be as perfect to the heirs of Cot-te-se-pawn as to Al-lo-lah.
That the title of the lawful heirs of Cot-te-se-pawn in and to the reserve situate in township twenty-seven, north of range seven east of the second principal meridian, Indiana, surveyed and designated as survey number twenty-one, containing six hundred and forty acres, according to the map of Indian grants certifyed by the surveyor-general on the second of September, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty, be confirmed as fully and effectually as if the same had been originally reserved to Al-lo-lah by the treatyPatent to issue. above recited; and that upon the surrender of the patent heretofore issued to the said Al-lo-lah, another patent be issued therefor to Cot-te-se-pawn and to his heirs: *Provided, however*, That the said landProviso.802THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 48, 57, 58, 59. 1850. remain subject to such contracts and liabilities as may have lawfully accrued against and upon the same during the life-time of the said Cot-te-se-pawn. Approved, August 30, 1850.