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Private Law 25–LXVII
for the relief of certain heirs and legal representatives of James Wilson, late of [the] town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.
Approved March 2, 1839
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of certain heirs and legal representatives of James Wilson, late of [the] town of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That the lien of the United States, derived from
Lien on a certain lot in Alexandria, released to proprietors of said lot.
a deed of trust executed by J. C. Wilson upon a certain lot of ground lying in the city of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, on which stood a house, consumed by fire in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which lien was given by James C. the son of the said TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 68, 69, 96, 97. 1839. James Wilson, be, and the same is hereby, released to the legal proprietors of the said lot, on condition that they, or some one of them, shall pay to the treasurer of the United States, for the use thereof, such sum of money as the Secretary of the Treasury, for the time being, shall consider equivalent to the one-third part of the value of the said property, after the consumption of the buildings formerly erected, and prior to the construction of the new buildings now standing thereon: Provided, That the said James C. Wilson, by whom the said deed of trust or mortgage was executed, shall in no event be entitled to or enjoy, by force of this law, any advantage, right, or privilege, to which he would not have been entitled if it had not been passed.
Approved, .