United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 5
Chap. V.—An Act authorizing repayment for land erroneously sold by the United States.
Act of Feb. 25, 1825, ch. 13, sec. 3.
Purchasers of public lands, where the purchase has been found void, to receive such sum as they may have paid therefor.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, or the legal representative of every person, who is, or may be, a purchaser of a tract of land from the United States, the purchase whereof is, or may be void, by reason of a prior sale thereof by the United States, or by the confirmation, or other legal establishment of a prior British, French, or Spanish grant thereof, or for want of title thereto in the United States, from any other cause whatsoever, shall be entitled to repayment of any sum or sums of money, paid for, or on account of, such tract of land, on making proof, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the same was erroneously sold, in manner aforesaid, by the United States, who is hereby authorized and required to repay such sum or sums of money, paid as aforesaid.
Approved, January 12, 1824.