United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 104
Chap. CIV.—An Act for the benefit of Percis Lovely, and for other purposes.
Certain lands secured to her.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land not exceeding one half section, including the present residence of Mrs. Percis Lovely, in Pope county, in the territory of Arkansas, shall be reserved by the President of the United States from public sale, during the lifetime of said Percis, and that she shall have the entire use and privilege of, and possession of the said half section of land, for and during her life:Proviso. Provided, That the said Percis Lovely shall not commit, or permit any other person to commit, on said land, any voluntary waste.
Value of certain improvements, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay unto the said Percis Lovely, or her legal representative, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to that for which her improvements upon the land secured to her by the treaty of Hiawassee, in one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for life, were valued, and which improvements and land were taken from her by the treaty of Washington, of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, with the Cherokee Indians.Proviso. Provided, That before the money shall be paid the said Percis Lovely, she shall produce to the Treasury Department satisfactory evidence that the said sum of money has not been heretofore paid her by the government of the United States, through the Indian Department:Proviso. and Provided, also, That the half section granted by this act, shall not interfere with, or include any lands lying within the limits of any reservation made by the last-named treaty, made at Washington as aforesaid, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
Seneca treaty.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Seneca tribe of Indians at Washington, the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the sum of eleven thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1831.