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'1`WEN'fY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 185, 136, 137. 1842. S5]. Johnson court-house, in the state of Arkansas, entered by the said Rees B. Ward by mistake, he or they shall be authorized to enter in lieu thereof, a like quantity of public land subject- to private entry in said district, and not in the occupancy of any bona fide settler; Provided, proviso_ That said land so entered by the said Rees B. Ward by mistake shall not previous to such surrender have been sold toa. bona fide purchaser. Arvnovrzn, August 11, 1842. A Sururrz Il. crm. cxxxv.-..an cer for me nzayr of rnuam Wynn. Aus *i» 184% Be it enacted, dye., That William Wynn, of Lafayette county, and Allowed amstate of Arkansas, be permitted a pre-emptive right of entry at private emptive **8*** 1** sale, on payment in cash of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, °f°"` in the proper land office of the district where the lands are situate, of any portion, or all of the lands contained in the several sections and fractional sections, designated as sections eighteen, nineteen, twenty, seventeen, eight, nine, ten, seven, three, four, twenty-one, twenty- seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-three, thirty-four, of township sixteen south, range twenty-six west, and sections seventeen, twenty, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, nineteen, thirty, of township fifteen south, range twenty-five west, situate in the state of Arkansas ;_ said entries to be made under the following rules and limitations, viz; that said entries be made within two years from the date of this act; and that they be not made so as to interfere with any improved land, claimed by others than himself, or by pre-emption right 'or claim of title; and if less than all of said lands liable to entry shall be taken up by said Wynn, no less subdivision shall be so entered than by the entire section or iiactional section, or of all the lands subject to sale in any such section where part may have been otherwise disposed of Armovan, August 11, 1842. Cirar. CXXXVI.—.6n Act for the relief of the inhabitants of the reserved town- ship in Gibson county, in the state: of Indiana. ..;... Be it enacted, rye., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he A ¤¤¤ti¤¤ of hereby is, authorized to select one section, in not less than quarter 2-"gc{,°;°i:°,;'{,i, sections, of any surveyed and unappropriated lands in the state of In- selected. diana, not subject to any right of pre-emption, for the use of schools within the reserved township in Gibson county, in the state of Indiana, in lieu of the sixteenth section in said township, which was granted by Congress to the state of Indiana, for the uses and benefit of a state college; which said section,when so selected, shall be forever held, or disposed of, under the laws in force, by the inhabitants of said reserved township, for the use and purposes for which section sixteen is in other cases held or disposed of] and for no other use or purpose whatever. Approved, August 11, 1842. Snrurn II. Cine. CXXXV11.—An det for the relief of Zacharza/1 Jellison. Be it enacted, eye., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby Certain duties authorized and directed to pay, out of any_money in the Treasury not l° b° *°l`“”“‘*· otherwise appropriated, to Zechariah Jellison, three hundred and forty dollars and thirteen cents; being the amount of duty levied by act of Act of March March 2, 1833, on three hundred and fifty bales of leaf tobacco, being 2, 1833, ¤h·62- part of four hundred bales imported from the island of Cuba into the district of Boston, on the 22d and 24th days of December, 1832, in the bri General Mercer and bri Lubec, and deposited in the customhouse gtores agreeably to the pgovisions of the act of the 14th July, 1Q3g 'gf M" 1832: Provided, That satisfactory proof shall be furnished to the Sec- Proving, retary of the Treasury that said duties were paid, and not returned in debentures on the exportation of said tobacco, and that the same was