Volume 6
Private Law 16–VIII
for the relief of James Hughes.
Approved January 28, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of James Hughes.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to issue a certificate, for four hundred
Certificate for $400 to be issued to him.
dollars, to James Hughes, of Randolph county, in the state of Illinois, or his representatives, as a compensation for two hundred acres of land, to which he was entitled, and which has been sold by the United States; which certificate shall be receivable in payment for so much of any debt to the United States for public land.
Approved, .