United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 157
Chap. CLVII.—An Act to grant to Cherokee county, Alabama, the tract of land on which the seat of justice of said county has been located.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,A tract of land on the Coosa river granted to Cherokee county, &c. That there be, and hereby is, granted to the county of Cherokee, in the State of Alabama, the tract of land lying on the Coosa river, whereon the town of Jefferson is situated, in said county, containing one hundred and fifty acres, according to the survey of S. R. Russell, county surveyor for the seat of justice of said county, instead of the quarter section allowed by law for the same purpose; the commissioners of said county paying for the same minimum price as in other cases.
Approved, July 5, 1838.