Private Law 26–XVIII

That the register and receiver of the land office at Huntsville, in the state of Alabama, be, and they are hereby, required

Proviso.

to issue a certificate to William Jones, of Lawrence county, in said state, for the amount received in said land office for the south-west quarter of section twenty-two, in township five, of range three west, and the additional amount of the interest which has accrued thereon, at the rate of six per centum per annum: Provided, said Jones shall file in

A certificate or amount paid or certain land, vith interest, to be issued.

said land office a relinquishment of all right, title, and interest, in said quarter section, to the Government of the United States; and the said certificate shall be received in payment of any of the public lands which may be thereafter sold in the said state of Alabama: And provided, also,

Proviso.

That it shall be satisfactorily shown to said register and receiver, that said quarter section was selected by the state of Alabama, under the act of Congress granting four hundred thousand acres of relinquished

1828, ch. 15.

land to said state, for the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee and other rivers, before the sale thereof at said United States land office.