Volume 6
Private Law 16–LX
for the relief of James Brown and John Brown, half breeds, of the Cherokee nation of Indians.
Approved March 3, 1837
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of James Brown and John Brown, half breeds, of the Cherokee nation of Indians.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is
Payment for improvements surrendered by them.
hereby, directed to pay to James Brown the sum of six hundred and forty-seven dollars, and to John Brown the further sum of three hundred and thirty dollars; making, in the aggregate, the sum of nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as full compensation for the improvements surrendered by the said James Brown and John Brown, under the provisions of the treaty of eighteen hundred and nineteen, between the United States and said nation of Indians.
Approved, .