United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 3
Chap. III.—An Act for the relief of Samuel Aikman.
Allowed to rectify mistake in an entry made by James Aikman.Be it enacted, &c., That the register and receiver of public moneys of the land office for the district of Vincennes, on satisfactory evidence being produced to them that James Aikman, who entered at the said office the north-west quarter of section thirty-four, in township two north, and range seven west, had made application for the purchase of the said quarter section through mistake, intending at that time to have applied for the north-west quarter section thirty-five, in the same township and range, and that the occasion of the mistake in his application was the erroneous numbers marked at the corner of the aforesaid section on surveying the said lands, shall permit Samuel Aikman, the assignee of James Aikman, to withdraw the aforesaid entry, and in lieu thereof, to enter the land mentioned quarter section, if the same shall at that time remain unsold; and the receiver of public moneys shall allow the said Samuel Aikman a credit on the said entry, or, in case of the previous sale of the land, on any other entry which he shall make of land within the said district, equal in amount to the moneys paid on the first mentioned quarter section:Proviso. Provided, That no credit for the moneys paid as aforesaid shall be allowed, until the said Samuel Aikman shall have returned the patent to him granted for the first mentioned quarter section to the said register, who shall transmit it to the general land office, where the same shall be cancelled.
Approved, January 14, 1818.