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Volume 6

Private Law 1–LXXVI

for the relief of Oliver Welch.

Approved July 20, 1840

Statutory text

An Act

for the relief of Oliver Welch.

Be it enacted, &c.,

That Oliver Welch, of the county of Talladega,

Authorized to correct a mistake in the purchase of certain land.

and state of Alabama, be, and he is hereby, authorized to surrender the certificate which issued to him from the land office at Mardisville, in said state, on the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, for the north-east quarter of the north-west quarter of section nine, in township twenty, of range four east, in the Coosa land district; which was purchased and paid for by him through mistake; and upon such surrender of said certificate, or, if a patent shall have issued for said tract of land, upon the surrender of his patent, and filing his relinquishment in said office, the said Oliver Welch shall be entitled to a certificate from the register and receiver of the said land office for the amount which was so paid by mistake; which shall be received in payment for any other tract of land in said land district which maybe subject to private entry.

Approved, .

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