United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 137
Chap. CXXXVII.—An Act declaring valid and legalizing certain sales of land in the state of Mississippi.
Lands lying in Monroe county, Mississippi, which have been sold since Oct., 1822, legalized, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sales of lands lying in Monroe county, in the state of Mississippi, which have been sold at the land offices of Huntsville, and Tuscaloosa, since the thirtieth of October, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, are hereby legalized and declared valid, as though made at the proper land offices; and that patents be issued for them, in the same manner as for other lands soldat the land offices at Huntsville and Tuscaloosa.
Approved, May 20, 1826.