Volume 6
Private Law 16–CXXXII
for the relief of Benjamin and Nancy Merrill.
Approved June 23, 1836
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Benjamin and Nancy Merrill.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Benjamin Merrill and Nancy his wife, be, and they are hereby, authorized to sell the reservation of six hundred and forty acres of land taken by them under the treaties of one thousand
Authorized to sell a reservation of land.
eight hundred and seventeen and one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, and being in the state of Alabama, upon the condition, that the contract for the sale of the same be examined and approved by the district attorney of the United States for the district of North Alabama; and upon the further condition, that they remove to the country assigned to the Cherokee Indians west of the Mississippi river, and that the expenses of such removal be defrayed by themselves.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be held or
Title not guarantied.
construed to guaranty the title which the said Benjamin and Nancy Merrill set up to the tract of land mentioned in the foregoing section.
Approved, .