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Private Law 20–CXXXVIII
for the benefit of John Winton, of the state of Tennessee.
Approved May 24, 1828
Statutory text
An Act
for the benefit of John Winton, of the state of Tennessee.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That there shall be paid to John Winton, of the
Payment to him for land ceded to a Cherokee Indian.
Proviso.
state of Tennessee, the sum of five thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That said sum shall not be paid until said Winton shall produce to the Secretary of the Treasury satisfactory proof that, by deed, recorded in the proper office of the clerk of Hamilton county, he has relinquished to William Brown, all title which he has to a certain tract of land, of six hundred and forty acres, situated in said county, and which was reserved in fee simple to said William Brown, by treaty between the United TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 139, 140, 141, 142. 1828. States and the Cherokee nation of Indians, made on the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Approved, .