Private Law 27–XCVII

That all the interest which the United States now

Interest of the U. S. in certain lands relinquished to him.

has, or may hereafter have, in and to a certain tract of land, known as fractional section seventeen, township five, and range four east, lying on the left bank of the Alabama river, containing five hundred and fifty acres, more or less, and a small part of said fractional section, lying on the right bank of said river, containing, as supposed, two acres, more or less, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished, and vested in William Waller and his heirs; the said William Waller having paid for said land the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and Arthur Sizemore, who was authorized by an act of Congress, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, to sell said land, provided “ he removed with his family west of the Mississippi,” having been prevented by death from complying with said act of Congress.