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710 TWENTY—F1FTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 48, 49, 50. 1838. so received upon the said instalments and mistakenly paid into the treasury; and in case the said amount, or any part thereof, has been credited upon the books of the department, to be endorsed or otherwise applied upon, the bonds of the said Fortesque Whittle, due to the United States, then the said Secretary is hereby further authorized and directed to recharge the said amount to the said Fortesque Whittle, or otherwise to cancel the credit given to him for such payment. Approved, April 4, 1838. Sururm H. ‘;" April 4, 1838. CHAP. XLVIII.-dn Act for the relic/` of Michael Cassel. Bc it enacted, <§·c., That Michael Cassel, of Laporte county, in the May surrender state of Indiana, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the cer- °l““d °°"*m‘ tificate issued to him from the land office at Laporte, in said state, for cate, and enter · · other {Md_ lots numbered one and two, or the east part of section thirty-five, township thirty-seven north, of range one west, which was entered by him through mistake; and, on tiling his relinquishment to all right and title thereto, the said Michael Cassel is hereby authorized to enter in said land office at Laporte an equal quantity of any of the public land remaining unoccupied and subject to private entry in the Laporte land district, with that for which he has paid and shall relinquish, and be entitled to a certificate for the same. AI’PROVED, April 4, 1838. S·rA·ru·ra II. APU} 6» 1838- CHAP. XLIX.—-An Act for the rclicf of I/Wlliam Eadus. Bc it enacted, eye., That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of h§lg”{)‘;’;:lf°g 3 any unappropriated money, to William Eadus, two thousand dollars, in me enemy_ Y full, for his house burnt by the British at Sodus, New York, in June, eighteen hundred and thirteen. Approved, April 6, 1838. STATUTE II. April 6, 1838. Cr-rA1-. L. -—An Act for ilze relic/` of Isaac Wellbcrn, junior, and Willianr Well- ”"*‘;"" barn. Be it enacted, <§·c., That there shall be, and is hereby, relinquished REN, &c.<>f to Isaac Wellborn, jr., and William Wellborn, their heirs and assigns, gg, gggefvgfgn all the right, title, and interest which may have accrued or reverted, or of [ima, mm,. might hereafter accrue or revert, to the United States, to a certain re- ¢1,;·¤i¤h¤d w servation of six hundred and forty acres of land, made to a certain t °m‘ Thomas Harrison, the head of an Indian family of the Cherokee tribe, under treaties made between said tribe and the Government of the United States, on the eighth of July, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the twenty-seventh of February, eighteen hundred and nineteen, which tract ofland is situated in Jackson county, Alabama, and bounded as follows: Beginning at two post oaks and a red oak; thence west three hundred and twenty poles to a stake near the top of a steep rocky mountain; thence south three hundred and twenty poles to a white oak and red oak on the top of a ridge; thence east three hundred and twenty poles to a stake; a Spanish oak, chinquepin oak, mulberry, and two hickories, marked as pointers; thence north three hundred and twenty Proviso. poles to the beginning: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to impair or lessen the right or title of any individual claiming under the said Thomas Harrison, and who may not hav; fairly or legally transferred his or her interest in the said tract of lan . Approved, April 6, 1838.