United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 68
Chap. LXVIII.—An Act for the relief of the heirs of James Hynum.
Donation of land.Be it enacted, &c., That the heirs of James Hynum, of the Mississippi territory, shall be entitled to a donation of two hundred and twenty-six acres of land, according to the provisions of an act of Congress, passed the third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, entitledAct of March 3, 1803, ch. 27. “An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of Tennessee,” to be located, surveyed, and granted, in the manner prescribed in the said recited act; and to be subject to the dower of the widow of the said James Hynum, as fully and completely as if the title to the said land had been vested in the said James Hynum.
Payments on said land to be refunded.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That all sums of money paid by Margaret Hynum, widow of the said James Hynum, since the death of the said James, as part of the price of the said land, in contemplation of a purchase thereof, shall be refunded to the said Margaret; and the receiver of public moneys in the land district west of Pearl river, is hereby directed to pay the same to the said Margaret, out of any public money now in his hands, or which may hereafter come to his hands.
Approved, March 1, 1815.