Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of section thirty-five, of township twenty-five, range six east, to which Joseph Perry, a Choctaw Indian, was entitled, and of which he was deprived by operation of the Chickasaw treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-four, and the action of the government of the United States, the said Joseph Perry or his assignees shall be entitled to locate one section of land, in quantities not less than one quarter section by the legal subdivisions, upon any of the public lands not otherwise appropriated, subject to private entry.

Approved, August 11, 1848.