Volume 6
Private Law 25–CXCV
for the relief of David Ballentine.
Approved March 3, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of David Ballentine.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the Secretary of the Treasury cause to he issued to David Ballentine, of Ohio, assignee of Patrick Duffy, a certificate
Certificate of forfeited land scrip to be issued to him.
of forfeited land scrip for one hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents, it being the amount paid by said Patrick Duffy to the receiver of public moneys at the land office at Zanesville, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, as the first instalment for a quarter section of land, and which subsequently reverted to the United States for non-payment, and was sold to another purchaser.
Approved, .