Private Law 20–XLV

That the sum of eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-seven and one half cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to George Wilson, of Pennsylvania, paya- TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 46, 47, 48. 1829. ble out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being

Indemnified for his claim to certain land in Georgia.

an indemnification for his claim for seventy-one thousand one hundred and eleven acres of land, held as citizens’ rights, in the pretended purchases of land from the state of Georgia, by the Georgia and Tennessee companies: Provided, That the said George Wilson shall previously

Proviso.

take and subscribe the oath required by the third section of the act passed on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and

1814, ch. 39.

fourteen, providing for the indemnification of claimants of public lands in the Mississippi Territory, which affidavit, and the transfer of the said George Wilson of all his claim, to the United States, according to the provisions of the said act, shall be filed in the Department of State, with the transfers, conveyances, and records, returned to that department, by the Commissioners appointed under the act supplementary to the act aforesaid, passed on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight

1815, ch. 24.

hundred and fifteen : Provided, That before any payment shall be made,

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under the provisions of this act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney-General, or any two of them, shall certify

Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.

Act of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24.

that this case comes within the class of cases intended to be embraced by the acts of Congress of thirty-first March, 1814, and twenty-third February, [January,] 1815, and that it ought in justice to be paid.