Buncombe & Ashe County, NC - Sundry Citizens - Act For Relief, 1827 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An Act for the relief of sundry citizens of the counties of Buncombe and Ashe Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Secretary of State shall be authorised and required to issue a certified copy of an entry from the returned copies of entries from the county of Buncombe in his office, which entry is No. 1794, made by Samuel Carter and Solomon Carter, for two hundred acres, on the 16th April, 1825; and that such certifed copy shall be sufficient evidence to authorise the Treasurer of the State to receive the purchase money for said land. And be it further enacted, That the Public Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to receive the purchase money on the following entries, made in the county of Ashe, that is to say, by Leonard Bellew, fifty acres, which entry is No. 4608, and dated the 26th October, 1825; also by Solomon Perry, for fifty acres of land, by him entered on the 27th day of October, 1825, which entry is No. 4615; also by Francis Sturgill, for twenty-five acres of land, entered on the 12th day of February, 1825, which entry is No. 4566: Provided the same be paid for before the rise of the present General Assembly; and that this act shall be in force from and after the ratification. Source: Public and Private Laws of North Carolina 1827 Chapter CXXI Page 81 ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Guy Potts – gpotts1@nc.rr.com ______________________________________________________________________