Private Law 22–CCLXXXVIII

That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized to pay to Hartwell Vick,

Money paid on account of certain land to be refunded to Hartwell Vick, with interest.

of the state of Mississippi, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-five cents, with interest thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the twenty-third day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, the sum aforesaid, having by him been paid on the day aforesaid, as the first instalment of the purchase money of fractional section number twenty, in township number sixteen, of range number four, east; which fractional section by a subsequent survey was found not to be the property of the United States, at the time of the entry.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That Jesse Bell of Wilkinson

Jesse Bell authorized to locate land.

County, Mississippi, be, and he is hereby authorized to locate in tracts of not less than eighty acres, not exceeding one section of any of the unappropriated lands of the United States within the state of Mississippi, subject to entry at private sale at the time of such location, in lieu of fractional section number fifteen, in township two of range four west, TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 289, 290, 291. 1832. purchased on the seventh day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, by his father William Bell, deceased, through a mistake in the original plat of survey: for which land, when so located, a patent shall issue to the said Jesse Bell, in the manner prescribed by law for the issuing of patents in other cases, on transmitting to the General Land Office a certificate of the Register of the proper office of his having made such location: Provided, The said Jesse Bell shall file in

Proviso.

the land office of the district where such land may lie, a relinquishment of all of his right, title, and interest, in and to the fractional section entered by mistake as aforesaid, in such form as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury.