United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 161
Chap. CLXI.—An Act to authorize the issuing of patents to the last bona fide transferee of reservations under the treaty between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians which was concluded on the twenty-fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The President to cause patents to issue to the last purchasers, &c. of Indian selections, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause patents to be issued to such person or persons as may be the bona fide purchaser, owner, assignee, or transferee of any selection or reservation which has been made to, or in behalf of, any chief or head of an Indian family, under a treaty concluded between the United States and the Creek tribe of Indians, at Washington city, on the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, whatever may be the number of intermediate transfers or assignments:Proviso. Provided, The person or persons applying for such patent or patents shall adduce satisfactory proof to the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the fairness of said several preceding transfers or assignments.
Approved, July 5, 1838.